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briquette: a small brick
bris: shattering; breach
brisable: breakable (capable of being broken)
brisant: reef; breaker (wave)
briscard: veteran (person who used to be a soldier); old fox (crafty person)
brise: breeze
brise-bise: brise-bise (net curtain for the lower half of a window)
brise-glace: icebreaker (ship)
brise-lames: breakwater (construction in or around a harbour)
brise-épée: sword-breaker
brisement: breaking up
briser: to break; snap; to become broken; snap
briser la glace: to break the ice
briser le cœur: to break someone's heart
briseur: breaker (one that breaks)
briseur de grève: strikebreaker
briska: britchka, buggy (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering)
brisque: a specific card game; in the French army, a chevron (symbol) worn on the sleeve as a sign of experience
bristol: Bristol board; visiting card
bristolien: Bristolian
brisure: chip (small broken piece of material)
brisé: broken
britannicité: Britishness
britannique: British
britanniquement: britannically / Britannically (in the British manner)
britanno-colombien: of British Columbia; British Columbian
british: typically British
brittonique: Brittonic, Brythonic
brittophone: Breton speaker
brittophone: Breton-speaking
brize: quaking grass (grass of the genus Briza)
brièvement: briefly
brièveté: brevity (quality of being brief)
broc: ewer, pitcher
brocantage: brokerage (trade of a broker)
brocante: synonym of marché aux puces: flea market; market for bric-à-brac; car boot sale; jumble sale
brocanter: to trade at a jumble sale or flea market
brocanteur: broker; dealer in junk or in second-hand goods
brocard: mockery, ridicule; brocard
brocarder: to mock, ridicule
brocart: brocade
brocatelle: brocatelle (all senses)
brocciu: brocciu (Corsican cheese)
brochage: paper binding
brochant: Having a charge overlying a semé field, or generally any charge overall
broche: brooch, pin; spit, skewer; spike, peg
brocher: to stitch, sew (together); to brocade
brochet: pike (any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox)
brochette: brochette (skewer); brochette (meat); small brooch
brocheur: bookbinder; fabric stitcher
brocheuse: female equivalent of brocheur; bookbinding machine; stapler
brochure: brocade; needlework; brochure, booklet, pamphlet
broché: paperback; brocaded
brocoli: broccoli
brodequin: buskin, half-boot; buskin; work boot
broder: to embroider
broderie: embroidery
brodeur: embroiderer
brodé: embroidered
brogane: work shoe, old or used shoe