brooch (US ALSO broach) /brəʊtʃ/ aep /broʊtʃ/ noun [C]
► F0 a small piece of jewellery with a pin at the back that is fastened to a woman's clothes: » She wore a small silver brooch.Thesaurus+: ↑Jewellery- in/out of play
- in/out of pocket
- in/out of print
- in/out of sync
- in/out of the running
- in parallel
- in parenthesis
- in part
- in particular
- in passing
- inpatient
- in pawn
- in perpetuity
- in person
- in perspective
- in phase/out of phase
- in place
- in place of sb/sth
- in plaster
- in practice
- in preference to sth
- in principle
- in private
- in progress
- in public