brandenburg

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brandenburg - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Brandenburg \Bran"den*burg\, 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.
                                                    --Smollett.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

brandenburg - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Brandenburg
      n 1: the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that
           expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701

brandenburg - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Brandenburg, KY (city, FIPS 9226)
    Location: 37.99685 N, 86.18041 W
    Population (1990): 1857 (790 housing units)
    Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 40108