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brief

/ˈbɹif/ adjectif B1

En français : bref, court

  1. Of short duration; happening quickly. · Her reign was brief but spectacular.
  2. Concise; taking few words. · His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.
  3. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.

Comparatif briefer · Superlatif briefest

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A very brief analysis of these four words would enable you to say with the utmost confidence that the ‘learn’ and the ‘maybe’ are written in the stronger hand, and the ‘what’ in the weaker.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 49 · B2
And, as though to add to the daily misery which this prosperous canal inflicted on the unfortunate innkeeper, whose utter ruin it was fast accomplishing, it was situated between the Rhône from which it had its source and the post-road it had depleted, not a hundred steps from the inn, of which we have given a brief but faithful description.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 278 · C1
I envy you your beauty and your perfume.” The Rose replied, “I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief season!
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 93 · B2
His brief season of elegant luxury would be doubly enjoyable if he could add to it a lady’s society.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 28 · C1

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