Breton

Breton usually refers to:

  • anything associated with Brittany, and generally;
    • the Breton people of Brittany;
    • the Breton language, a Celtic language spoken in Brittany;
    • the Breton (horse), a breed of horses; and
    • the Breton galette or crêpe, a thin buckwheat flour pancake popular in Brittany.

Breton may also refer to:

Read more about Breton:  Surname, Other Uses

Famous quotes containing the word breton:

    “Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)

    “Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”
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    “Come little babe, come silly soul,
    Thy father’s shame, thy mother’s grief,”
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