brochetten.
1. ? Obsolete.
a. A small broach, spit, or pointed stick.
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the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [noun] > pointed object or part > pointed stick
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1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 363/4 Thyrten knottes which were ful of brochettes of smale nedles and theron smale rynges.
1756 Dict. of Arts & Sci. at Bell You must come again to the first face of the brochette or stick A.
b. In Cookery: see quot. 1706.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Brochette, a Skewer to stick in Meat. In Cookery a particular manner of frying and stewing Chickens, etc.
1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Brochette,..a particular way of dressing Fowls.
2. A pin or bar used to fasten medals, orders, etc., to the coat or uniform of the wearer.
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1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxvi. 255 He wore three little gold crosses in a brochette on the portly breast of his blue coat.
1896 Daily News 5 Mar. 7/5 M. Faure wore his brochette of Russian Orders.
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