brooch
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See also: Brooch
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of broach.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) enPR: brōch, IPA(key): /bɹoʊtʃ/, /bɹuːtʃ/[1][2][3]
- Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
- Homophone: broach
Noun[edit]
brooch (plural brooches)
- A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
- A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
Translations[edit]
jewellery with pin
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Verb[edit]
brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)
- (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
- c. 1606–1607, Shakespeare, William, 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.
References[edit]
- ^ “brooch” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- ^ On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times
- ^ The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli
Luxembourgish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)
Declension[edit]
declension of brooch
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass brooch | si ass brooch | et ass brooch | si si(nn) brooch | |
without article | nominative/accusative | broochen | brooch | broocht | brooch |
dative | broochem | broocher | broochem | broochen | |
with article | nominative/accusative | broochen | brooch | broocht | brooch |
dative | broochen | broocher | broochen | broochen |
Derived terms[edit]
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