All 4 Uses of
broach
in
Ivanhoe
- —Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the mightiest ale, the richest morat, the most sparkling cider, the most odoriferous pigments, upon the board; fill the largest horns [13] —Templars and Abbots love good wines and good measure.†
Chpt 3 *
- The smaller sorts of wild-fowl, of which there was abundance, were not served up in platters, but brought in upon small wooden spits or broaches, and offered by the pages and domestics who bore them, to each guest in succession, who cut from them such a portion as he pleased.†
Chpt 4
- He's expected at night, and the pasty's made hot, They broach the brown ale, and they fill the black pot, And the goodwife would wish the goodman in the mire, Ere he lack'd a soft pillow, the Barefooted Friar.†
Chpt 17
- He saluted Rowena by doffing his velvet bonnet, garnished with a golden broach, representing St Michael trampling down the Prince of Evil.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(broach as in: broached the subject) bring up a topic for discussion - especially an awkward topic
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Other senses of broach include a type of jewelry and to open or pierce something.