Brabant
Speech parts
1. Brabant - Noun
2. Brabant - Proper noun
Meaning
(historical) Until 1995, a province of central Belgium; since divided into Flemish Brabant, Brussels-Capital Region and Walloon Brabant.
Duchy of Brabant; a historical region, roughly comprising the area of modern Flemish and Walloon Brabant, Brussels, the Belgian province of Antwerp, and the Dutch province of North Brabant.
Brabant (plural Brabants)
A draft horse of a strong, heavy breed originating from the Brabant region of modern Belgium.
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Examples
Do you know what I long for sometimes? To make a trip to Brabant. I should love to draw the old churchyard at Nuenen, and the weavers. To make, for instance, during a month, studies of Brabant, and to come back [to The Hague] with a lot of them, for a large drawing of a peasant funeral for instance.
After the First World War distribution was expanded to other towns and villages in North Brabant.
Apart from this small area almost the whole of the Peel has been brought into cultivation. citation Rivers and deltas Sunset at the Peel, North Brabant, Netherlands The province is bordered by the Meuse River in the north.
Attempts to introduce Protestantism into the region were largely unsuccessful; North Brabant remained strongly Roman Catholic.
Around this time the centre of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders (Bruges–Ghent) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent continued to play an important role.
Also to be mentioned is the name of the town Walldorf (villa Latina, "Wallonendorf", town of Walloons) and villa Barbant or Barbantina, a name which brings to mind Brabant in Belgium.