brooch

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brooch

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Variant of broach.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/

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• (US) enPR: brōch, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /bɹuːt͡ʃ/^[1][2][3]
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
• Homophone: broach

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.

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

1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25:

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

From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).

• IPA^(key): /bʀoːχ/

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

1. fallow

• broochleeën
• broochleien