Ouche

Quick meaning: Ouche is a noun meaning (historical or poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when set with jewels or valuable.

Meaning

(historical or poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when set with jewels or valuable.

Example Sentences

a Persian mitre on her hed / She wore, with crownes and owches garnished […]

[A]nd the hors trapped in the ſame wyſe doune to the helys wyth many owchys y ſette with ſtones and perlys in gold to the nombre of a thowſand […]

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

My huſbonde had a legende of his lyfe^([sic – meaning wyfe?]) / Eriphilem that for an ouche of golde / Hath preuely vnto the grekes tolde / Where that hir huſbonde hyd him in a place / For which he had at Thebes ſory grace.

Word Forms

• ouches
• ouch

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brooch, broche, broach, slide, breastknot, clutch.

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