Usually means: Fictional priest, detective, literary character.
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  3. Father Brown (disambiguation), Father Brown (film), Father Brown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  8. father brown, Father Brown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Father Brown)

noun:  a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective.
noun:  a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as the title character with Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker.
noun:  a British television series, which originally aired on ITV in 1974.
noun:  a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.
noun:  a British period detective television series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton, starring Mark Williams as the crime-solving Roman Catholic priest.
noun:  (German: Pater Brown) a West German mystery television series which aired between 1966 and 1972 on ARD.Compart p.303 It is based on the Father Brown stories of British writer G.K. Chesterton, about a crime-solving Catholic priest.


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