brooch

Etymology

Variant of broach.

noun

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

verb

  1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
    Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me. c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25

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