Usually means: Short musical notes, half notes.
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  1. breves: Merriam-Webster
  2. breves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. breves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Breves, breves: Wordnik
  5. breves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. breves: Wiktionary
  7. breves: Dictionary.com
  8. Breves: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. breves: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. breves: Legal dictionary

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  1. breves: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (breve)

noun:  (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
noun:  (music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.
noun:  (law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
noun:  (zoology) A pitta, all of which have more or less short tails.
noun:  An equal mix of espresso and half and half cream.
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