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Brooch

//bɹoʊt͡ʃ// noun, verb

Definitions

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 decorative pin worn by women wordnet
  3. 3
    A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
Verb
  1. 1
    To adorn as with a brooch. transitive

    "Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me."

  2. 2
    fasten with or as if with a brooch wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of broach.

Etymology 2

Variant of broach.

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