(historical) A region in northern France.

A female given name.

A surname.

An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.

(transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. / (transitive, law) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.

Of short duration; happening quickly. / Concise; taking few words. / Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short. / (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.

(obsolete, poetic) Briefly. / (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.

(law) A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate. / (law) An answer to any action. / (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.

Obsolete spelling of brief

(generally used in the plural when referral to a single garment) A type of panty girdle with longer legs and a higher waist, normally worn by a woman to lift and shape her buttocks area while flattening the stomach area.