breloque

[ bruh-lohk ]

noun

1. a charm or trinket, especially one attached to a watch chain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of breloque¹

Borrowed into English from French around 1855–60

Example Sentences

Breloque, bre-lok′, n. an ornament attached to a watch-chain.

From Project Gutenberg

In front of their waists hung a sort of breloque, or chain, looped up at intervals in festoons, the object of which was to jingle as they moved, and to add to the effect of certain little brass castagnette cymbals which they held on the middle finger and thumb of either hand.

From Project Gutenberg

He is responsible for workmanship, Nature for the rest, since from the Venus of Phidias the Athenian, down to the little old fellow, Godenot, commonly called the Sieur Breloque, a character carefully elaborated by one of the most celebrated authors of the present day, everything is studied from the eternal model of human imitations which belongs to all.

From Project Gutenberg

He is responsible for workmanship, Nature for the rest, since from the Venus of Phidias the Athenian, down to the little old fellow, Godenot, commonly called the Sieur Breloque, a character carefully elaborated by one of the most celebrated authors of the present day, everything is studied from the eternal model of human imitations which belongs to all.

From Project Gutenberg