(n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
(n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
(imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) A new surgical technique is described for the osteosynthesis of the supra-condylar transversal fracture of the humerus in children with an unique central transolecranian and transcondylar brooch.
(3) Now seven veterans, with a collective age of 639, wearing the gold and blue brooches – not medals – they were finally awarded in 2009, have returned for the launch of a book about their lives there, The Debs of Bletchley Park by Michael Smith.
(4) From a sapphire and diamond brooch to a humble bag of salt, the Queen picked up an eclectic haul of official gifts during the year she became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
(5) On the cover of Testament is an image of a Luckenbooth brooch, a traditional Scottish love token comprised of linked hearts and a crown.
(6) "Hazel Blears wore a brooch saying, 'Rocking the boat'.
(7) A pound-sign brooch on a member's lapel glints in the setting sun.
(8) He was generous to his Duchess, too, over the years commissioning a collection of bejewelled insect brooches, which she wore pinned to ribbons as they left quite dreadful holes in frocks.
(9) Elephant pendants were a theme, I noticed, and elephant brooches and elephant rings and elephant T-shirts.
(10) The ballerina-length hem was elegant – dressier than knee-length, more fashion-forward than a gown – while a diamond maple leaf brooch, leant by the Queen, added a diplomatic twinkle.
(11) Due to a difficult synthesis of the tibial bone synthesis of the peroneum with a thick rod or with a brooch was performed, recovering the length of the lever and allowing to de-telescope the tibial focus, to recover the normal length and a corresponding axis.
(12) Not wildly encouraging, granted, but delve deeper and you'll also find an array of pottery, wall hangings, scarves and brooches.
(13) Kate wore a blue Jenny Packham dress, the Queen’s diamond maple leaf brooch and a hat by Lock & Co. As William chatted to Trudeau, Kate tended to a somewhat shy George, asking “Are you OK?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prince William, Prince George, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte arrive at 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron base on Saturday in Victoria, British Columbia.
(14) People were a bit uncomfortable with it at first, but it looked so good.I remember Johnny got a brooch, and then I got one on my leather jacket.
(15) All three have shared an air of borderline farce: to fully tick all the boxes, all the Hewitt-Hoon putsch needs is a prop to match Blears's infamous brooch and the elder Miliband's banana.
(16) Wearing a blue coat and brooch, she was placed between the foreign secretary William Hague and David Cameron – who gave up the seat he normally occupies as prime minister – with the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg sat opposite.
(17) The sapphire and diamond brooch, in the shape of a fern, was a present from Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena , and not the only addition to the royal jewellery box.
(18) They have even become fashionable, with celebrities wearing them in the form of bejewelled brooches, cufflinks and rings.
(19) It was joined by a sapphire and silver brooch given by HMS Ocean, a navy helicopter carrier, and a diamante brooch from the Queen’s Royal Lancers.
(20) She wore a pale yellow Irene Sharaff gown, and a $150,000 emerald and diamond brooch that Burton had bought her at Bulgari in Rome.
Garment
Definition:
(n.) Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of treatment with compression garments were assessed at 6 months and at 12 months, using a grading system based on colour, consistency and thickness of the scar.
(2) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(3) A prospective randomized study was undertaken to compare compliance efficacy and cost of the elastic nylon pressure garment (Jobst Institute, Inc., Toledo, Ohio) with the cotton elastic pressure garment (Tubigrip, SePro Healthcare Inc., Montgomeryville, Penn.).
(4) Aerosol resuspension from garments is an important consideration in assessing inhalation exposure to toxic dusts.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women at work in a Bangladeshi garment factory.
(6) Scientists are looking at making fabrics that can absorb poisonous gases or harmful bacteria, or conduct electricity, and be used to make stylish garments.
(7) Nonporous Tyvek was permeable to all seven drugs, and the Kaycel garment was permeable to all of the drugs except etoposide.
(8) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
(9) During all trials with chemical protective garments, plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone levels (PA) were significantly (p less than 0.05) elevated following the exercise protocol while neither was affected during exercise in fatigues only.
(10) The disaster brought Bangladesh’s entire garment industry under intense scrutiny but did not slow its strong growth, from $21.5bn that year to $28bn in 2015-16.
(11) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
(12) However it is clear that Mauritius is now using many more migrant workers in its 50,000 strong garment industry, many from Bangladesh.
(13) With a standard deviation of the approximately log-normal distribution of the experimental values as high as about 2 times the mean, it is necessary to carry out as many as 20 replicate experiments in order to differentiate with certainty between garments with a two-fold difference in penetration.
(14) They hang pretty strangely, these garments of Britannia: if our decline is down to the loss of empire, how can we call that a coarsening?
(15) It is probable that the single factor most important to the decline, in our experience with these injuries, is lower fabric flammability but, because our data may not be representative, corroboration is needed before one can exclude factors such as altered garment design, fire safety-related practices at home, or changing patterns of hospital referral.
(16) Saranex-laminated Tyvek was the most protective of the barrier garments, followed closely in effectiveness by the polyethylene-coated Tyvek.
(17) Textiles, if not garments, have always been a key element of global commerce.
(18) As a charity that campaigns on issues of women’s economic equality, we take these allegations extremely seriously and will do our utmost to investigate them … we remain confident that we took every practicable and reasonable step to ensure that the range would be ethically produced and await a fuller understanding of the circumstances under which the garments were produced.” When the Fawcett Society sought reassurance about standards at the factory, Whistles emailed back to say CMT is “a fully audited, socially and ethical compliant factory” and cited accreditations relating to the provenance and content of materials.
(19) For the next two, three years I moved from zero to hero: I was running the largest business owned by a woman in Malawi, in industrial garment manufacturing.
(20) Those in Bangladesh who demanded government intervention in one of the country's few economic success stories made little headway when dozens of garment factory owners sat in parliament and powerful industry bodies had the ear of policymakers.