Definition of "brigadier" []

• A brigadier general. (noun)

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• "The second was the brigadier from the garage with a list of the cars assigned to the drivers."
• "Well, and afterwards, up to her death, indeed, he lived with her, and they do say she led him a pretty dance — the brigadier, that is; sent him on foot from Moscow into the country — by God, she did — to get her rents in, I suppose."
• "The brigadier was a thick-set, soldierly looking man, fit as a fiddle in spite of the grey hairs which mingled with his brown moustache, and his eyes lit up as he saw his two sons still safe and well."