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Ornamental clasp open on the ear
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brooch
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A brooch is a decorative jewellery item designed to be attached to garments, often to hold them closed. It is usually made of metal , often silver or gold but sometimes bronze or some other material. Brooches are frequently decorated with enamel or with ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE silver ▪ To Léonie she left an ivory bracelet and a silver brooch . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner. ▪ After some ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French broche "long needle" (see broach (n.)). Specialized meaning led 14c. to distinct spelling.
Usage examples of brooch.
She was wearing her arty get-up, but had discarded the wooden beads in favour of a brooch consisting of a wooden letter M.
He wore three calico shirts, one atop the other, homespun breeches, and the odd drooping cap, rather like a half-wound turban, that men favored for formal occasions, plus long silver earrings and a handsome brooch in the shape of the rising sun.
Every cadet line was represented, wearing the Tor Bezaemar martlet worked into pendants, rings and brooches, combined with the badge of every line subsumed into the Name over the generations.
She considered boiled lollies in all the colours of the millefiore brooch which her grandmother wore, and barley-sugar in long, glassy canes.
Pen automatically reached to brush a piece of fluff from his doublet, and while she was about it resituated the jeweled brooch he wore in the lace at his throat.
Fine brooches and ornate neck-encompassing torcs winked and flashed from many throats, for the room now filled with nobles and advisers, chiefs and priests, Brehons or judges and Seanachies or historians, ollams and sternly robed Druids.
The simpler adjusted one of her brooches and then waved her hands, setting her gray streaked braids flying.
The simpler wore a black cloak about her shoulders and four gold brooches.
Just an old, pitted, wrought-iron spikelet, cleverly encased in a crystal tube, the whole then set in a gold brooch and surrounded by small pigeon-blood rubies.
The small brooch was not the famous Stede Bonnet brooch which had once rested in this place and in whose disappearance my own mother had played some mysterious role.
It would be strange indeedyet not, perhaps, unlikely, that the Stede Bonnet brooch has been resting safely in a special hiding place all these years.
She had decided against the necklace or the brooch as well, and had instead pinned a simple spray of stephanotis on the shoulder of her gown, and carried a white lace fan with silver sticks, and a reticule of the same fabric as her gown.
The rest of the parure consisted of a necklace of single roses which could be used also as a simple tiara, a brooch with flowers and leaves mounted en tremblant, and a pair of bracelets to match the necklace.
In each of these is there coined money, both white and red, and some deal of gold uncoined, and of rings and brooches a few, and by estimation there is in each bag the same value reckoned in lawful silver of Upmeads and the Wolds and the Overhill-Countries.
She unclasped the brooch at her shoulder, then reached around behind her back and untied the laces of her girdle, unwinding it carefully, before tossing it lightly aside.