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breloque

/bɹəˈləʊk/

breloque noun: a seal or charm for a watchchain.

Noun

breloque (plural breloques)

  1. A seal or charm for a watchchain.
    • she praised the lovely breloques or gimcracks which the young gentleman wore1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC
    • […]wearing a waist-coat rich in breloques (the most amusing of which was a dagger the size of a fingernail)1971, Dmitri Nabokov translating Vladimir Nabokov, Glory, page 1

Forms of breloque

pluralbreloques

Origin of breloque

Borrowed from French breloque.

Questions about breloque

What does breloque mean?
Breloque means a seal or charm for a watchchain.
What part of speech is breloque?
Breloque is a noun.
How do you pronounce breloque?
Breloque is pronounced /bɹəˈləʊk/.
What is the plural of breloque?
The plural of breloque is breloques.

Words near breloque in the dictionary

  1. brella
  2. brellas
  3. brellie
  4. brellies
  5. brelly
  6. breloque
  7. breloques
  8. Brelsford
  9. Brelsfords
  10. Brem
  11. Bremain

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