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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. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett.

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  1. 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. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett.
  2. A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only afrog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broadhorizontal stripe.
  3. n. the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701