brevet
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I hereby grant you the rank of brevet colonel in the army of the level-headed, Pacific Command.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2019
Rolling in after 407km, we got our brevet cards stamped and tucked into warming bowls of homemade daal.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2018
In his own absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general.
From Time Magazine Archive
I understand a sister of his was at Thorncliffe at the time of his trial, &c., the wife of a brevet lieutenant-colonel in the 4th regiment.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army."
From Time Magazine Archive
We’ll be colonels, breveted colonels, every last one of us–Colonel Driscoll, Colonel Grinders, Colonel Brothers and Sisters, Colonel––” “That’s easy,” said Driscoll smiling.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
They, always give him the title with which he had been breveted at the close of the war; but he was known to the younger, generation of his fellow-citizens as the judge.
From The Kentons by William Dean Howells
The permanent junior clerk was, as it were, breveted with the rank of the real clerks in the inner office; and so was hope dangled over the heads of eight of us.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
He was subsequently breveted Brigadier General for meritorious services.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
After the war’s end, Otis was brevetted with the rank of lieutenant colonel by his commander Rutherford B. Hayes, who commended Otis for his “gallantry and meritorious services.”
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2016
Into the breach sped an army of energetic amateurs who were soon brevetted with official status.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been twice brevetted for gallantry—once for services against the Seminole Indians in Florida, and once for the battle of Molino del Rey in Mexico, where he was badly wounded.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday
He lived to see a grandson brevetted with the same title for gallantry in the field.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
Brodhead, a veteran of the Mexican war, who was brevetted for gallantry at Contreras and Cherubusco, while serving as lieutenant in the Fifteenth United States infantry.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd
