Broch vs Brooch - What's the difference?
broch | brooch |
(archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-skinned walls found on Orkney and Shetland and parts of the Scottish mainland.
* 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 268:
A piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
To adorn as with a brooch.
As nouns the difference between broch and brooch
is that broch is breakage while brooch is fallow (unseeded or uncultivated land).broch
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(wikipedia broch)Noun
(en noun)- Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].