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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. 1

    A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.

  2. 2

    A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Etymology

Variant of broach.

verb

  1. 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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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).