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Brillant

Brillant may refer to:

People
  • Félix Brillant
  • Dany Brillant
  • Edmond Wilhelm Brillant
  • Jean Brillant
  • Pierre-Luc Brillant
Places
  • Montigné-le-Brillant, Mayenne, France
  • Val-Brillant, Quebec
Other
  • Birilyant, a dance
  • Les Brillant, a French language Canadian sitcom
  • Voigtländer Brillant, a twin-lens reflex camera

Usage examples of "brillant".

Quelle mere de famille eut accepte pour gendre le jeune homme brillant et, passez-moi le mot, bruyant que vous etiez alors?

Il ne repondit pas, et il se mit a marcher en long, en large, a pas saccades, la tete haute, les yeux brillants, les levres fremissantes.

Les occasions ne lui ont cependant pas manque, ce qui ne doit pas te surprendre, beau garcon, officier brillant, heritier presume de Gaston, il avait tout pour faire un gendre et un mari desirables.

And Brillant, who since waking had been coming and going in silence, trained to control his delight so as not to awaken anyone, but who was breathing his fe-verishness on every object within his reach, would now rear up against his master, paws on his chest, and try by stretching his back and neck to give that beloved face a good strong licking.

Vivid splashes of color blossomed in the shady forest, scarlets and blues and flashes of brillant lemon that lived in profusion in the foliage of the shrubbery.

Je le menai dans les bals les plus brillants de la saison, chez Mme X .

Vivid splashes of color blossomed in the shady forest, scarlets and blues and flashes of brillant lemon that lived in profusion in the foliage of the shrubbery.

For a brillant investigation of the development of self-critical beliefs at an early age, see Carol Dweck's studies of mastery-oriented thinking.