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▪ I. brooch|brəʊtʃ|
Forms: 3–9 broche, 6 brooche, brouche, brutch, browche, 5–7 bruche, brouch, 7 broch, 8 bruch, ? Sc. brotch(e, 9 broach, 4, 6– brooch.
[ME. broche; the same word as broach, the differentiation of spelling being only recent, and hardly yet established. Occasionally pronounced (bruːtʃ).]
1. An ornamental fastening, consisting of a safety pin, with the clasping part fashioned into a ring, boss, shield, or other device of precious metal or other material, artistically wrought, set with jewels, etc. (Cf. Fr. broche, ‘grosse épingle à l'usage des femmes’. Littré.) Now used mainly as a (female) ornament, but always for the ostensible purpose of fastening some part of the dress.
a1225Ancr. R. 420 Ring ne broche nabbe ȝe. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1273 Send hire letters, tokens, brooches, and rynges. a1400Morte Arthure 3257 Rebanes of golde, Bruchez and besauntez and oþer bryghte stonys. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xxxiii. (1483) 81 An ouche or a broche. 1530Palsgr. 201/1 Broche for ones cappe, broche. Broche with a scripture, deuise. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. (1869) 102 With brouches and aglettes of gold vpon their cappes, which glistered ful of peerles and precious stones. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 620 S. Georges halfe cheeke in a brooch. 1720Stow's Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) II. v. viii. 248/1 Henry VIII..wore a round flat cap..with a Bruch or Jewel and a feather. 1776Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 14 At the same time [Bruce] lost his mantle and brotche. 1877L. Jewitt Half-hrs. among Eng. Antiq. 223 The fibula in Norman times was more like an ornamental circle of jewels and stones, with a central pin; and its name ‘brooch’ is derived from this article, and its resemblance to a spit.
†2. Formerly also in a more general sense: according to Johnson ‘a jewel, an ornament of jewels’. In earlier times applied to a necklace, a bracelet, and other trinkets. Obs.
1382Wyclif Song Sol. i. 9 Faire ben thi cheekes, as of a turtil; thi necke as brooches. c1440Promp. Parv. 52 Broche, juelle..monile, armilla. 1483Cath. Angl. 45 A Broche, firmaculum, monile. 1533Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 22 The Sabinis had goldin brochis of grete wecht apoun thair left arme. 1552Huloet, Brouche or small cheyn, whiche gentlewemen do weare about their neckes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iii. iii, About her tender neck were costly bruches. 1676Bullokar, Brouch, a kind of Jewel to wear appendant to a Chain.
†b. fig.; cf. gem, jewel. Obs.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. vi. (1858) 122 [Ethelthredus] wedded Emme, cleped ‘The broche of Normandie’. 1528More Heresyes iii. (1529) lxxxviii. b, It wolde be a goodly brooche for vs to loke on our owne fawltys another whyle. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 94 He is the Brooch indeed, And Iemme of all our Nation. 1625B. Jonson Staple News iii. ii, Who is The very Broch o' the Bench, Gem o' the City.
†3. ‘A painting all in one colour’. Obs. (Only in Dictionaries.)
1706in Phillips. Hence in Bailey, Johnson, etc.
4. Comb., as brooch-maker.
c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 583 Firmacularius, a brouche-makere. c1500Cocke Lorell's B. (1843) 9 Laten workers, and broche makers. 1530Palsgr. 201/2 Broche maker, bambelottier.
▪ II. brooch, v. rare.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To adorn as with a brooch.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. xv. 25 Not th' Imperious shew Of the full-Fortun'd Cæsar euer shall Be brooch'd with me. 1865E. Burritt Walk Land's End 439 Wheat-fields in their best gold brooched the broad bosom of either valley.
▪ III. brooch
obs. form of broach. |