brigadier
/bɹɪɡəˈdɪɚ/ noun C2- An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade.
- The head of a workforce in the Soviet Union.
Plural brigadiers
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This late arrival had attracted much suspicion, and the young man being no other than Andrea, the commissary and gendarme, who was a brigadier, directed their steps towards his room.
“Oh, oh,” said the brigadier, who thoroughly understood the trick; “a bad sign to find the door open!
We say corroborated, because the brigadier was too experienced to be convinced by a single proof.
The brigadier sent for some sticks and straw, and having filled the chimney with them, set a light to it.
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