breastpin
nounEtymology From breast + pin.
1
An ornamental pin attached to clothing in a person's upper chest area; a brooch.
- 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.1843, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 17, in Past and Present:
- A sprig of white flowers was in her light wavy hair, and another fastened by her breastpin drooped over her bosom.1883, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 5, in His Sombre Rivals:
- Hypernyms
- pin