What is "breaux"

Usage examples of "breaux".

Ease up," Breaux said softly, feeling guilty about being so flip over a friend's death.

Ryan stepped forward to kick the pistol away when the nervous Breaux decided to make a move.

Valerie was the perfect example of Breaux womanhood, held up to her as a role model from the time Sylvie first demonstrated her profound shyness as a young girl.

Shyness and timidity in any form were considered a weakness in the Breaux family.

The Breaux women were known throughout Louisiana as the Ice Breaux, in recognition of their cold ruthlessness in pursuing their goals.

Her aunts, Margo and Madeline Breaux, had stopped at nothing in setting up their mail-order-tea dynasty.

Valerie Breaux, daughter of her deceased Uncle Henri, made no apologies for her roughshod, fast-track career path from jury consultant to Court TV anchor.

Oh, she'd pretended to be timid when they were younger, but she was Ice Breaux to the bone, even then.

And the speculation over why one of the Ice Breaux would marry a lowly street guitarist had provided meat for juicy gossip.

Matt had managed to dredge up her education and work history, her failed marriage, her mother's political record, her aunts' business dealings, her cousin Valerie's recent smash hit on Court TV, the unsavory appellation given to the women of her family, "Ice Breaux," even the fact that Sylvie had been a client of a famous shyness therapist for years.

And she could have done it, too, thanks to a substantial trust fund left her by generations of independent Breaux women.

Valerie Breaux was such a straight arrow she would probably turn her mother in for tasting the grapes in the supermarket.

He wasn't sure which surprised him most: that his friends considered Valerie Breaux the answer to their prayers, the woman who'd called him a "crude Cajun asshole" more than once while they were growing up together in Houma, or that Tante Lulu feared this woman might be his soul mate.

He took the girl to a colored place in Breaux Bridge, I guess it was, a zydeco place or something like that.

Then he accelerated and closed on my rear bumper, as though he wanted to see my reflection in the side mirror or some detail of my pickup the dealer's name, a bumper sticker that read Mulate's, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.