(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.
Painting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint
(n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
(n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
(n.) Color laid on; paint.
(n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
(3) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(4) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(6) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
(7) These results indicate that, following a single painting of DNFB onto Langerhans cell-deficient skin, the numbers of Lyt2+ cells do not change significantly, but do change functionally.
(8) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
(9) PT painting resulted in rather higher sensitivity with Triton X-100 than with sodium lauryl sulphate.
(10) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
(11) A Landolt ring (diameter 43.5 cm; contrast 1:1.5) served as a test stimulus; it was painted on a disc 87 cm in diameter that could be rotated in steps of 45 degrees.
(12) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(13) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
(14) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(15) Injuries from paint require emergency surgical débridement and exploration because of the extreme tissue toxicity of the injected material.
(16) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(17) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
(18) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
(19) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(20) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.