Word Meanings - BRANDENBURG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett.

• Breastplow
  Alt. of Breastplough
• Broadening
  of Broaden
• Broadspreading
  Spreading widely.
• Breastplough
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• Broadsword
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.
• Breastrail
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• Broad gauge
  A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
• Broadwise
  Breadthwise.
• Breastrope
  See Breastband.
• Broad-horned
  Having horns spreading widely.
• Decoration
  The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
• Trimmingly
  In a trimming manner.
• Breastsummer
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.

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