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breastpin

NOUN
  1. a decorative pin worn by women

How To Use breastpin In A Sentence

  • Glisten breastpin, no matter you fasten it on collar or hair, can have the effect that make the finishing point.
  • Against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc and compass breastpin.
  • Cameo breastpins were a favorite with many, while nearly every girl had her ears pierced for earrings.
  • 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. An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it. The Lady from the Sea
  • 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
  • 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. Sole Music
  • She insisted upon being stabbed on the stage, and she had rigged up a kitchen carving-knife with a handle of gilt paper, ornamented with various breastpins of the girls, which was celebrated in florid terms in her part of the drama as a Tyrian dagger. Oldtown Folks
  • Figures of them were sold in the form of photographs, watercolor studies, breastpins and carvings.
  • 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". Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1
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