Associations to the word «Brittany»

Wiktionary

BRITTANY, proper noun. A region in north-west France. [from 15th c.]
BRITTANY, proper noun. (obsolete) (chiefly poetic) The British Isles. [15th-19th c.]
BRITTANY, proper noun. A female given name popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.

Dictionary definition

BRITTANY, noun. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.

Wise words

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