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Re: Where does it come from and what does it mean
Certainly from the ethnic term Breton, i.e., someone from Brittany, The French province (at present). I thought that English place-names might have contributed, Bretton (two) in Yorkshire, meaning "farm of the Britons", but I can't confirm it.
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