breloque

Borrowed from French breloque.

• IPA^(key): /bɹəˈləʊk/

breloque (plural breloques)

1. A seal or charm for a watchchain.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     she praised the lovely breloques or gimcracks which the young gentleman wore

   • 1971, Dmitri Nabokov translating Vladimir Nabokov, Glory, page 1:

     […] wearing a waist-coat rich in breloques (the most amusing of which was a dagger the size of a fingernail)

• berloque

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• IPA^(key): /bʁə.lɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk

breloque f (plural breloques)

1. breloque, charm (for bracelet)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Elle vit à Rouen des dames qui portaient à leur montre un paquet de breloques; elle acheta des breloques.

     At Rouen she saw some ladies who wore a bunch of charms on the watch-chains; she bought some charms.

• → English: breloque
• → German: Berlocke
• → Greek: μπρελόκ (brelók)
• → Polish: brelok
• → Romanian: breloc
• → Russian: брелок (brelok)
• → Swedish: berlock

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