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   brooch

   /brōCH/

   noun

   • 1. an ornament fastened to clothing with a hinged pin and catch.

   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 broach1.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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