The silk shawl she draped over her shoulders winter and summer was in place; her mother of pearl brooch was at her neck as it should be and her shoes were shining as immaculately as ever.

A pearl brooch formerly owned by her was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2012.

This I quickly was: my best dress (the silver-grey one, purchased for Miss Temple's wedding, and never worn since) was soon put on; my hair was soon smoothed; my sole ornament, the pearl brooch, soon assumed.

On a hill, lifted like a pearl brooch above the fair breast of the city, the Alhambra can still be seen and loved.

At her shoulders were two pearl brooches, clasping a filmy midnight-blue cloak that floated behind her, glowing dimly.

The jewellery pictured includes a silver pocket watch, a pearl brooch, a silver pendant and several tie or stick pins.

Then Kitty kissed her, and gave her a pearl brooch, shaped like a lily of the valley, which had been her mother's and they climbed into Peter's Morris Minor and drove away to Wales, for a honeymoon.

He was engaged in examining a pearl brooch at the counter.

Thomson designed a diamond and pearl shell-shaped brooch (from 1918) that was given to his sister Winifred, and left by her to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

The pop star Usher upped the ante in March when he appeared on the cover of L'Uomo Vogue wearing a pearl brooch amid his more familiar diamond ropes, and a pearl ring in the pictorial.