brooch
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//bɹəʊtʃ//
- United States//bɹoʊt͡ʃ//
- United States//bɹut͡ʃ//
A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
noun
- 1
A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
- 2
A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
Etymology
Variant of broach.
verb
- 1
To adorn as with a brooch.
Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.
Forms
- plural
- brooches
- past tense
- brooched
- past participle
- brooched
- present participle
- brooching
- third person singular
- brooches
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