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brandenburg
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brandenburg, n. [So named after Brandenburg , a province and a town of Prussia.].
A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. [1913 Webster]
"He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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