from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A piece of jewelry that is worn on a piece of clothing, attached with a pin that clasps shut.
from The Century Dictionary.
To adorn with or as with a brooch or brooches.
noun An ornamental clasp consisting of a pin and a projecting or covering shield, used for fastening the dress, or merely for display.
noun A monotint, or picture in one color, as a sepia sketch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
noun (Paint.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
transitive verb rare To adorn as with a brooch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A piece of women’s ornamentaljewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
verb transitive To adorn as with a brooch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a decorative pin worn by women
verb fasten with or as if with a brooch
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English broche, pointed tool, brooch, pin; see broach.]
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Examples
Yet these were the years that most intrigued me; as I continued my research, I found out she may have had a broken romance with Prince Leopold of England but ended up marrying another man (while wearing a diamond brooch from the Prince on her wedding dress); as a mother, she suffered heartbreak during
For the brooch is an engagement present from Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, to then Princess Alix of Hesse who was to become his wife in 1894.
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