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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
brooch .
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Examples
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With the golden 'F'elaborately brooched onto his shirts and his kinda-creepy Dr. Evil commie-lounge suits, the Swissman is making a splash.
Ashley Rindsberg: Fernando Verdasco, Tennis' New Beckham 2009
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An other ouer that of chainlet, or like stufle called an Alkaben, sleeued and hanging lowe, and the cape commonly brooched, and set all with pearle.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The _pañuelo_ is square, and, being folded triangularly, it hangs in a point down the back and stands very high up at the neck, in the 17th century style, whilst the other two points are brooched where they meet at the top of the chemisette _décolletée_.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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A nosegay of violets, brooched to her gown, echoed the hue, but not the magic of her eyes.
Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922
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Silently, and without special call, into my study of imagination come these apparitions, clad in snowy mantles, brooched and gemmed with frosts.
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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And the Tanner pointed where one came running, a man long of leg, long of arm and very bright of eye, a goodly man clad in hood and jerkin of neat's leather as aforetime, only now his bugle swung from baldrick of gold and silver and in his hood was brooched a long scarlet feather.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Silently, and without special call, into my study of imagination come these apparitions, clad in snowy mantles, brooched and gemmed with frosts.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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An other ouer that of chainlet, or like stufle called an Alkaben, sleeued and hanging lowe, and the cape commonly brooched, and set all with pearle.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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It's like him defending himself is gonna be a piece of history or something the way the topic keeps getting brooched.
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Finally, and since we’ve brooched the comics event of the steaming Summer about to fade into the glorious Autumn, we have Blackest Night: Titans #1.
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