Brevet
- n. A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.
- n. A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.