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brooch

noun
🔊/brəʊtʃ/
🔊/brəʊtʃ/, 🔊/bruːtʃ/
 (especially British English)
(North American English usually pin)
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  1. a piece of jewellery with a pin on the back of it, that can be fastened to your clothes饰针；胸针；领针
    • She pinned a large amethyst brooch to her lapel.她在翻领上别了一枚大大的紫水晶饰针。
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • cameo
    • diamond
    • pearl
    • …
    verb + brooch
    • have on
    • wear
    • pin
    • …
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    Word OriginMiddle English: variant of broach, a noun originally meaning ‘skewer, bodkin’, from Old French broche ‘spit for roasting’, based on Latin brocchus, broccus ‘projecting’. Compare with broach.