Brittany

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Quotations 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• (female given name:) Britney, Brittney

[edit] Etymology

From Latin Brittania, Brittania Minor, presumably from Celtic. "Great Britain" was Brittania Major.

[edit] Proper noun

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Singular Brittany

Plural -

Brittany

1. A region in North West France.
2. A female given name popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. By folk etymology sometimes taken to mean "Britain".

[edit] Related terms

• Breton
• Britain
• British
• Briton

[edit] Quotations

• 1595 William Shakespeare: Third Part of King Henry the Sixth: Act II, Scene VI:

  And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea,

  To effect this marriage so it please my lord.

• 1990 Alice Munro: Friend of My Youth. ISBN 0679729577 page 102:

  - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers."

  "I have a granddaughter named Brittany," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino."

  "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"

• 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls: Chapter Ten:

  Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany now an unscrupulous Burke, the generous Pamela a refitted, urbanized Parker.

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[edit] See also

• Countries of the world