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Brut


Definition:

  • (n.) To browse.
  • (n.) See Birt.

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  • (1) Sainsbury’s blanc de blanc brut champagne at £22.50 a bottle came joint top of the champagnes, scoring 80%It shared the accolade with Piper Heidsieck brut champagne (£33).
  • (2) If you’re engrossed in Vanity Fair (either the magazine or Thackeray’s novel, it makes no difference), you’ll need something that covers everything from the Cannes Film Festival to Becky Sharp so try Champagne Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut NV (£33, sainsburys.co.uk ).Or, try a glass of 2012 Domaine des Rochelles Anjou Rouge L’Ardoise (£10.15, hhandc.co.uk ), ever-so-slightly chilled.
  • (3) The BBC has apologised after one of its longest-serving presenters appeared to promote Brut aftershave on Radio 4’s Today programme.
  • (4) For Brut, he would become associated with aftershave, for the NHS, he was a face to encourage flu jabs for the elderly.
  • (5) ), I would drink Codorniu Brut NV Cava (£8.99, waitrose.com ).
  • (6) Jimmy Anderson, who was speaking to us in conjunction with Brut aftershave, who he is an ambassador for,” he said at the end of the clip.
  • (7) March 30, 2017 @DavidMerson wrote: “Jimmy Anderson in conjunction with Brut!
  • (8) March 30, 2017 Tom Bower (@tombower) @BBCRadio4 sports report this morning incl the words 'in conjunction with Brut' - blatant advertising by #BBC #radio4 not acceptable.
  • (9) It was a roughly equivalent but more inclusive coinage for art brut (raw art), a 1940s label by Jean Dubuffet for work by inmates of insane asylums, which the French artist described as “unscathed by artistic culture … and the conventions of classical or fashionable art”.
  • (10) Iain Dale (@IainDale) "That was Jimmy Anderson talking to us in association with Brut Aftershave."

But


Definition:

  • (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.
  • (adv. & conj.) Except; besides; save.
  • (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
  • (adv. & conj.) Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
  • (adv. & conj.) Only; solely; merely.
  • (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
  • (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
  • (n.) A limit; a boundary.
  • (n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
  • (v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
  • (v. t.) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
  • (v. t.) The thicker end of anything. See But.
  • (v. t.) A mark to be shot at; a target.
  • (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
  • (v. t.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
  • (v. t.) A thrust in fencing.
  • (v. t.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
  • (v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
  • (v. t.) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
  • (v. t.) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
  • (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
  • (v. t.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
  • (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
  • (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.

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