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Definition of Broche
1. n. See Broach,
Definition of Broche
1. Adjective. woven with a figure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Broche
1. brocaded [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broche
Literary usage of Broche
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"ЧГ We also find W. broch, tumult, broche!!, a tempest; Gael, ... F. broche, a
spit, also, a tine of a stag's hom ; see Brooch. Brood. (E.) ME trod. ..."
2. Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-latinus Princeps by British Museum, Galfridus (1843)
"The jewel which it was usual about the commencement of the XVIth Century to wear
in the cap, was called a broche. Palsgrave gives " broche for ones cappe, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"For he renders it, " very fine and beautiful pyramids of gold, " OL The word is
used by Chaucer :— And eke a broche (and that was little need) That Troilus' ..."
4. The Cambridge Ms (University Library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1879)
"... al •with grene And J>mm heng a broche of gold so kene 160 On wich ]>ere was
... broche ..."
5. Dictionnaire Du Patois Normand by Edélestand Du Méril (1849)
"HAV Et quant j'avoie, o le verjus, Mon haste en la broche torne. Fabliaux anciens,
t. iv, p. 447. HATI, sm Haine; en islandais Hâta ..."
6. Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, Daughter of King Henry the Eighth by Frederic Madden (1831)
"Itn? a broche of thistory of Abraham set w' a fayr table Diamond. ... an other
broche of the same Story set w1 vij. Diamond^ and a Rubie. ..."
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