breastpin

English

Etymology

From breast +‎ pin.

Noun

breastpin (plural breastpins)

1. An ornamental pin attached to clothing in a person's upper chest area; a brooch.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 17, in Past and Present:

     Mark on that nose the colour left by too copious port and viands; to which the profuse cravat with exorbitant breastpin, and the fixed, forward, and as it were menacing glance of the eyes correspond.

   • 1883, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 5, in His Sombre Rivals:

     A sprig of white flowers was in her light wavy hair, and another fastened by her breastpin drooped over her bosom.

Synonyms

• broach, brooch

Hypernyms

• pin

Translations

brooch — see brooch

Anagrams

• stepbairn