brig

[ US /ˈbɹɪɡ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈɪɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
  2. two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
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How To Use brig In A Sentence

  • The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
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  • Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
  • A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
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  • Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
  • Saturday morning came, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.
  • The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • They were energetic, bright eyed, and cheerful.
  • It was nice to play a Wii game that wasn't full of bright greens and blues like another title featuring Mario. Epinions Recent Content for Home
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