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brochure

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɹəʊ.ʃə(ɹ)//
  • United States//bɹoʊˈʃʊɚ//
  • United States//bɹoʊˈʃɝ//

A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes.

noun

  1. 1

    A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes.

    Have a look in the Acme brochure for a new vacuum cleaner.

Etymology

1748, from French brochure (“stitched work”), from brocher (“to stitch”), from Old French brochier (“to pierce”), from broche (“awl”), from Vulgar Latin brocca, from Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed”). Doublet of broach.

Forms

plural
brochures
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).