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Foreign piece of bric-a-brac, intricately worked (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arabic

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'foreign piece of bric-a-brac intricately worked' is the definition.
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'foreign piece of bric-a' is the wordplay.
'foreign piece' becomes 'a' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'of' indicates anagramming the letters (the answer comes from or 'of' the letters).
'bric'+'a'='brica'
'brica' anagrammed gives 'rabic'.
'a'+'rabic'='ARABIC'

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(Other definitions for arabic that I've seen before include "Major language of Middle East" , "Language of the Koran" , "Correspond; last word of Othello" , "1 [GCSE]" , "Language of North Africa and the Middle East" .)

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