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brooch

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English

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Etymology

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Variant of broach.

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Noun

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brooch (plural brooches)

  1. A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
    Synonym: breastpin
    Hypernym: pin
  2. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

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Verb

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brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

  1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.

References

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  1. ^ “brooch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times
  3. ^ The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).

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Adjective

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brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)

  1. fallow

Declension

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declension of brooch
number and gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative hien ass brooch si ass brooch et ass brooch si si(nn) brooch
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner broochen brooch broocht brooch
independent without determiner brooches broocher
dative after any declined word broochen broocher broochen broochen
as first declined word broochem broochem

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