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Jewelry that stabs your shirt into submission so it can hold still and look expensive.

means Decorative pins fastened to clothing with a hinged needle and clasp, worn for ornament or to fasten fabric.

from From Old French broche, a pointed spit or skewersame root as the verb broach, because every brooch is, at heart, a tiny dignified skewer.

Bronze AgeFibulae pinned togas long before buttons existed.
Coded messagesVictorians wore mourning brooches holding the dead's hair.
Royal flexElizabeth II used brooches as silent diplomatic signals.
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