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Breda

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Bre·da  (br-dä)
A city of southern Netherlands south-southeast of Dordrecht. It was founded in the 11th century. Charles II of England lived here before the Restoration in 1660. Population: 170,000.
Breda [ˈbriːdə (Dutch) breˈdaː]
n
(Placename) a city in the S Netherlands, in North Brabant province: residence of Charles II of England during his exile. Pop.: 159 042 (1999 est.)


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There was Terrence the Magnificent--descended, as Van Horn remembered, from the American-bred Milton Droleen, out of the Queen of County Antrim, Breda Muddler, which royal bitch, as every one who is familiar with the stud book knows, goes back as far as the almost mythical Spuds, with along the way no primrose dallyings with black- and-tan Killeney Boys and Welsh nondescripts.
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I had a tiny apartment in the Rue Breda, on the cinquieme: it wasn't at all respectable.
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