Definitions for broche

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Spelling: [brohsh]

IPA: /broʊʃ/

Broche is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in broche (bcehor).

Definitions for broche

noun

1. (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
2. a pinstripe woven in the warp direction of fabric used in the manufacture of clothing.

adjective

1. woven with a pattern; brocaded.

Origin of broche

1880-85; French: spindle, a pointed instrument; see broach

Examples for broche

The shuttle or bobbin of the high loom is called a broche, and that of the low loom a flute.

We woun' de thread on a broche, make like and 'bout de size of a ice pick.

The incidents of the 'broche' and 'pensel' are Chaucer's own; see Bk.

Your broche is very well amelled: vostre deuise est fort bien esmaillee.'

A broker was at first one who "broached" casks with a broche, which means in modern French both brooch and spit.

Bale oddly refers to this poem as De Vulcani veru, but broche is here an ornament, not a spit.

On the high loom, the instrument which holds the thread is called the broche, and on the low loom it is called the flute.

Again, just below, read The incidents of the 'broche' and 'pensel' are also due to the same; see p. lxii.

Specimens fattened by the Gaveuse Martin, all ready for the broche, used to be sold on the premises.