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Broche   Listen
adjective
Broche  adj.  
1.
Woven with a figure; as, broché goods.
2.
Stitched; said of a book with no cover or only a paper one.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Broche" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be a colour name, but it was applied in venery to a buck in the third year, of course in reference to colour; and some of our names, e.g. Brocket and Prickett, [Footnote: Both words are connected with the spiky young horns, Fr. broche, spit, being applied in venery to the pointed horns of the second year.] both applied to a two-year-old stag, must sometimes be referred to this important department of medieval language. Holofernes uses some of these terms ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley

... save de quemado aroma Que al aire en ondas a perderse asciende; Rayo de luna que en la parda loma [1295] Cual un broche su cima al ter prende; Silfa que con el alba envuelta asoma Y al nebuloso azul sus alas tiende, De negras sombras y de luz teidas, Entre el alba y la ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup

... addressing the eldest turnspit, a boy of about eleven years old, and putting a penny into his hand, he said, "Here is twal pennies, my man; carry that ower to Mrs. Sma'trash, and bid her fill my mill wi' snishing, and I'll turn the broche for ye in the mean time; and she will gie ye a ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott



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