单词 | brooch |
释义 | broochn. 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. French 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > brooch or pin > [noun] preenOE brooch?c1225 pina1275 lacec1384 ouchec1384 troche1434 fermilletc1475 bague1477 fermail1480 fibula1673 stickpin1890 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 308 Ring ne broche nabbe ȝe. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1273 Send hire letters, tokens, brooches, and rynges. ?a1400 Morte Arthure 3257 Rebanes of golde, Bruchez and besauntez and oþer bryghte stonys. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. xxxiii. 81 An ouche or a broche. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 201/1 Broche for ones cappe, broche. Broche with a scripture, deuise. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia ii. sig. Kviiiv With brouches & aglettes of gold vpon their cappes, which glistered ful of peerles & precious stones. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 610 Saint Georges halfe cheeke in a Brooch . View more context for this quotation 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. viii. 166/1 Henry VIII..wore a round flat Cap..with a Bruch or Jewel, and a Feather. 1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 14 At the same time [Bruce] lost his mantle and brotche. 1877 L. Jewitt Half-hours 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. a. 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [noun] > piece or article of jewelc1300 broocha1382 belette1522 bijou1668 joy1801 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Song of Sol. i. 9 Faire ben thi cheekes, as of a turtil; thi necke as brooches. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 52 Broche, juelle..monile, armilla. 1483 Cath. Angl. 45 A Broche, firmaculum, monile. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 22 The Sabinis had goldin brochis of grete wecht apoun thair left arme. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Brouche or small cheyn, whiche gentlewemen do weare about their neckes. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. ii. iii. 570 About her tender necke weare costly bruches. 1663 Bullokar's Eng. Expositor (rev. ed.) Brouch, a kinde of Jewel to wear appendant to a Chain. 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Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 96 [Ethelthredus] wedded Emme, cleped ‘Þe broche of Normandie’. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. lxxxviii. b It wolde be a goodly brooche for vs to loke on our owne fawltys another whyle. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 79 He is the brooch indeed And Iem of all the Nation. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iii. ii. 265 in Wks. II Who is The very broch o' the bench, gem o' the City. ΚΠ 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Compounds brooch-maker n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [noun] > jeweller > who makes specific article brooch-makerc1450 oucher?1518 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 583 Firmacularius, a brouche-makere. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.ij Laten workers, and broche makers. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 201/2 Broche maker, bambelottier. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). broochv. rare. transitive. To adorn as with a brooch. 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Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xvi. 26 Not th' Imperious shew Of the full-Fortun'd Cæsar, euer shall Be brooch'd with me. View more context for this quotation 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 439 Wheat-fields in their best gold brooched the broad bosom of either valley. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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