单词 | mourning brooch |
释义 | > as lemmasmourning brooch mourning brooch n. a brooch of jet or other black material, worn by people (usually women) in mourning. ΚΠ 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xvii. 164 Captain Cuttle again assumed his ankle-jacks and mourning brooch, and issued forth. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. 35 Priscilla cast away her velvet head-band, reckless of the little mourning brooch..which confined it on her intellectual brow. 1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 Feb. 16/6 (caption) Mourning brooch from Chantilly Antiques, Clayfield. < as lemmas |
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