Brewer's: Brevet Rank

is rank one degree higher than your pay. Thus, a brevet-major has the title of major, but the pay of captain. (French, brevet, a patent, a concession.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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