Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pin worn on the breast for a fastening or for ornament; a brooch; a scarf-pin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
ornamental pin attached toclothing in a person'supper chest area.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a decorative pin worn by women
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Examples
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He wore no ornaments, except ear-rings, a plain breastpin, and one or two rings on the fingers.
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She wears an oldfashioned apron all the time and in cool weather there is always a little black cape around her frail shoulders and held together with a plain old gold "breastpin".
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"I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin."
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Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it.
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Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it.
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Wrapped in the little parcel was a breastpin worth at least two and one-half guilders, and ultramodern.
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Sally was in high feather at the success of her exploit, and danced about like an elf, as she put her night-gown on over her frock, braided her hair in funny little tails all over her head, and fastened the great red pin-cushion on her bosom for a breastpin in honor of the feast.
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But when you see your grandma or great-auntie wearing a lovely old-fashioned breastpin, bound around with gold, and holding a pink stone, shining like crystal, with a white carved head or other figure standing out from the lower stone, you may know it is a very valuable ornament, and was probably made from one of the finest shells found in the sea.
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For where, pray, would Lord Dolphin wear a breastpin, or how would he look with a string of coral beads about his neck, or a bracelet pinched about his tail?
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With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat, -- one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom.
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