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Brittany and Duchy of Brittany

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(female given name): Britney, Brittney
(region): Britanny (obsolete)

A cultural region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest FranceCategory:en:Geographic and cultural areas of France#BRITTANYCategory:en:Former political divisions#BRITTANYCategory:en:Peninsulas#BRITTANYCategory:en:Places in France#BRITTANY. [from 15th c.]
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
  First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord.
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- 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 35:
  So Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon fled away to that part of France called Brittany, where they remained in saftey for many years.
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An administrative region of northwest France, including most of the historic region of BrittanyCategory:en:Brittany, France#BRITTANY Category:en:Regions of France#BRITTANY Category:en:Places in France#BRITTANY. [from 20th c.]
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#BRITTANY, chiefly poetic Category:English poetic terms#BRITTANY) The British Isles. [15th–19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].
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A female given name transferred from the place name, of 1980s and 1990s American usageCategory:English given names#BRITTANYCategory:English female given names#BRITTANYCategory:English female given names from place names#BRITTANY.
- 1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, →ISBN, page 102:
  - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
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- 1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:
  Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany now an unscrupulous Burke, the generous Pamela a refitted, urbanized Parker.
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- 2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  The leading voices of the womanosphere are using a similar strategy. As Brittany Hugoboom put it in an op–ed for the rightwing outlet Quillette: “Conservatives will never win if they imagine themselves as combatants atop defensive battlements, hurling abuse on the mass media. We need to involve ourselves in the creation of pop culture.”
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Breton
Brett (coordinate name)
Britain
British
Briton

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region of North West France

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Abkhaz: Бретонтәыла (Bretʼontʷʼəla)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#BRITTANY
Afrikaans: BretagneCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#BRITTANY
Albanian: BretanjaCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#BRITTANY
Arabic: بَرْطانِيَة f (barṭāniya)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#BRITTANY
Armenian: Բրետան (hy) (Bretan)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BRITTANY
Azerbaijani: BretanCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#BRITTANY
Basque: BretainiaCategory:Terms with Basque translations#BRITTANY
Belarusian: Брэта́нь f (Bretánʹ)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#BRITTANY
Breton: Breizh (br)Category:Terms with Breton translations#BRITTANY
Bulgarian: Брета́н m (Bretán)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BRITTANY
Catalan: Bretanya fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#BRITTANY
Chinese:
Mandarin: 布列塔尼 (zh) (Bùliètǎní)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BRITTANY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRITTANY
Cornish: Breten Vyghan fCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#BRITTANY, LesowCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#BRITTANY
Corsican: Bretagna fCategory:Terms with Corsican translations#BRITTANY
Czech: Bretaň (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#BRITTANY
Danish: Bretagne (da)Category:Terms with Danish translations#BRITTANY
Dutch: Bretagne (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRITTANY
Esperanto: BretonioCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#BRITTANY
Estonian: Bretagne (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#BRITTANY
Faroese: Bretagne fCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#BRITTANY, Bretania fCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#BRITTANY
Finnish: Bretagne (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BRITTANY
French: Bretagne (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#BRITTANY
Old French: Bretaigne la Menur fCategory:Terms with Old French translations#BRITTANY
Frisian:
West Frisian: BretanjeCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#BRITTANY
Galician: Bretaña (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BRITTANY
Gallo: BertaèynCategory:Terms with Gallo translations#BRITTANY
Georgian: ბრეტანი (breṭani)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#BRITTANY
German: Bretagne (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#BRITTANY, Kleinbritannien nCategory:Terms with German translations#BRITTANY
Greek: Βρετάνη (el) f (Vretáni)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRITTANY
Haitian Creole: Bretay fCategory:Terms with Haitian Creole translations#BRITTANY
Hawaiian: PilikaneCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#BRITTANY, BiritaneCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#BRITTANY
Hebrew: ברטאן f (bretayn)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#BRITTANY
Hindi: ब्रतान्य f (bratānya)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRITTANY, ब्रिटेनी f (briṭenī)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRITTANY, ब्रिटनी f (briṭnī)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRITTANY
Hungarian: Bretagne (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#BRITTANY
Icelandic: Bretanía (is) fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#BRITTANY
Indonesian: BretagneCategory:Terms with Indonesian translations#BRITTANY
Irish: Briotáin fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#BRITTANY
Italian: Bretagna (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BRITTANY
Japanese: ブルターニュ (Burutānyu)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRITTANY
Kabyle: BriṭanyaCategory:Terms with Kabyle translations#BRITTANY
Korean: 브르타뉴 (ko) (Beureutanyu)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BRITTANY
Latin: Britannia Minor fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#BRITTANY (medieval), Armorica fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#BRITTANY
Latvian: Bretaņa fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#BRITTANY
Lithuanian: Bretanė fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#BRITTANY
Macedonian: Брета́ња (mk) f (Bretánja)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#BRITTANY
Malay: BretagneCategory:Terms with Malay translations#BRITTANY
Manx: Britaan fCategory:Terms with Manx translations#BRITTANY
Norman: BrétangneCategory:Terms with Norman translations#BRITTANY
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Bretagne nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#BRITTANY

Nynorsk: Bretagne nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#BRITTANY
Occitan: Bretanha (oc) fCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#BRITTANY
Old Norse: Syðra-Bretland nCategory:Terms with Old Norse translations#BRITTANY, Bretland hitt syðra nCategory:Terms with Old Norse translations#BRITTANY
Persian: برتاین (bretâyn)Category:Terms with Persian translations#BRITTANY
Polish: Bretania (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BRITTANY
Portuguese: Bretanha (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#BRITTANY
Romanian: Bretania fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BRITTANY
Russian: Брета́нь (ru) f (Bretánʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRITTANY
Sardinian: Bretagna fCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRITTANY
Scots: BreetanyCategory:Terms with Scots translations#BRITTANY
Scottish Gaelic: A' Bhreatann Bheag fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#BRITTANY
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бретања fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BRITTANY

Latin: Bretanja (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BRITTANY
Sicilian: Britagna fCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#BRITTANY
Slovak: Bretónsko nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#BRITTANY
Slovene: Bretanija fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#BRITTANY, Bretanja fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#BRITTANY
Spanish: Bretaña (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BRITTANY
Swedish: Bretagne nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BRITTANY
Tagalog: BretanyaCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#BRITTANY
Thai: เบรอตาญ (brəə-dtaan)Category:Terms with Thai translations#BRITTANY
Turkish: BretonyaCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#BRITTANY
Ukrainian: Бретань f (Bretanʹ)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#BRITTANY
Vietnamese: BretagneCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#BRITTANY
Volapük: Bretän (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#BRITTANY
Welsh: Llydaw (cy)Category:Terms with Welsh translations#BRITTANY
Yiddish: ברעטאַן f (bretan)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#BRITTANY

female given name

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Bulgarian: Бри́тани f (Brítani)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BRITTANY
Finnish: Brittany (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BRITTANY
Greek: Μπρίτνεϊ f (Brítneï)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRITTANY
Inuktitut: ᑉᕆᑦᑕᓂ (prittani)Category:Terms with Inuktitut translations#BRITTANY
Japanese: ブリタニー (Buritanī)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRITTANY
Russian: Бри́ттани (ru) f (Bríttani)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRITTANY
Sicilian: Brittany fCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#BRITTANY

Noun

Brittany (plural Brittanies)Category:English lemmas#BRITTANY Category:English nouns#BRITTANY Category:English countable nouns#BRITTANY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#BRITTANY Category:Pages with entries#BRITTANY Category:Pages with 1 entry#BRITTANY

(prison slang Category:English prison slang#BRITTANY) A coward.
A gun dog of a particular breed.
- 2013, Edward M. Gilbert Jr, Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology:
  A dish face is not desirable in the Brittany. A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound.
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dog breed

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