a piece of jewellery with a pin on the back of it, that can be fastened to your clothes
She pinned a large amethyst brooch to her lapel.
Word Origin
Middle 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.
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