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brooch

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Searchable Lemmata: broche (AF), broca (L), broche (ME), bróitse (Ir), bruche (OScots), brooch (MdE).
Alternate Forms: brache, brake, broch, brocha, broge, brouch, brouche, bruche, brush, proche.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Jewellery; (in cloth and clothing contexts) a jewel or ornament; usually, a pin or fastener, often ornamented or with an ornamental attachment, made in a range of metals and other materials, in various shapes and sizes, both functional and decorative; important artefact as a chronological/social indicator. Also, the jewel or ornament on a pin or fastener; a hair-pin; any such jewel or ornament as a pendant, amulet, necklace, etc.(circa 1200 still in current use)
1. spinter: broche vel efficail Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 87) ante 1300]
2. floccis: borles, frucuns, floccis de leine ... panus: broche, ficlail ... [250.72] ... trama: treyme, traime, la treime ... [250.73] ... spola: spule, espole Gloss. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND GlossNequam (250) circa 1200]
3. un broche d’or ... ovesque les dites bedes [AND GAUNT1 (ii 22) 1372/1376]
4. ciclare: gerlandesges / ciclades: gerlondeches ... reticula: crespines, britilis, kellis, kalles, chales, gallis ... bulle: buttuns, botouns, botuns de or, botun, botons ... discriminalia: greve, anglice herbondes, grivurys, broches a greil ... nimbos: chapeus a plue ... murenule: cheyns Gloss. hair-pin (citations from page of text may not appear in original order) [AND TLL (ii 51) ante 1300]
5. A broche, gold and asure, In which a ruby set was lik an herte. Criseyde ... stak it on his sherte Poetic. [MED Chaucer TC ((Benson-Robinson) 3.1370) ante 1425]
6. Thou shalt be enourned with the goldene broche [L monili] and schal peynte thin e3en with strumpetes oynement Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED WBible(1) ((Dc 369(1)) Jer.4.30) ante 1382]
7. A pylgreme that had his govne sved full of patches and a cappe full of broches. [MED Ponthus ((Dgb 185) 97/6) circa 1450]
8. broiste snáth Gloss. This attestation, from an Irish-English dictionary, suggests that despite the spelling the term was considered English, as it is defined with a clearly Irish term. [eDIL P. O'C (002)]
9. ní bhí gan bronnadh dhí an dídsi / is ní bhí an bróidsi [eDIL IGT (Decl. ex. 90)]
10. pallium regale de purpura cum morsu et brocha auri Accounts. [DMLBS Pat (77b) 1207]
11. due broche auree ad pallium et dalmaticam, quarum in una est saphirus et in alia perla (Receipt R 3) Historic. [DMLBS Rec. Coronation (55) circa 1220]
c.f.: panus, monile, armilla, broach
AF, Ir, L, MdE, OScots.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, from Old French / Anglo-French broche, ultimately < Late Latin *brocca spike, pointed instrument). The British Latin forms brocha (1207) and broche (1220) stem from the French. In the medieval period the word had many senses relating to spiked objects, including skewers, hooks, rods, needles etc. and there was a derived verb 'broach' (q.v.) 'to pierce with a spiked implement'. In modern English the spelling 'brooch' has been adopted to differentiate the garment fastener from the other kinds of broach.
WF:
Etym Cog: broche (OF).
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