broché

See also: broche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French broché.

Adjective

broché (not comparable)

1. Woven with a figure.

   broché goods

2. Stitched; said of a book with no cover or only a paper one.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “broché”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ.ʃe/

• Audio:

  (file)

Participle

broché (feminine brochée, masculine plural brochés, feminine plural brochées)

1. past participle of brocher

Adjective

broché (feminine brochée, masculine plural brochés, feminine plural brochées)

1. paperback
2. brocaded

Further reading

• “broché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.