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

Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year-old brevet major general who wore a flowing red tie and had distinguished himself at Gettysburg.

From Time Magazine Archive

The use of brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was promoted captain in 1844 and served under Generals Taylor and Scott in the Mexican War, winning the brevet of major for gallantry in action in March 1847 and subsequently that of lieut.-colonel.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various