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Definition of Breastpins
1. breastpin [n] - See also: breastpin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breastpins
Literary usage of Breastpins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life, the Employments by Levi W. Yaggy, Thomas Louis Haines (1886)
"It is highly prob- GOM> breastpins FOUND AT POMPEII able that these circumstances
are the result of design rather than of chance. ..."
2. Additional General Regulations Under the Revenue and Collection Laws of the by United States, United States Dept. of the Treasury (1857)
"... goblets, vases, or any other utensil; or paintings capable of being converted
into breastpins, eardrops, or other ornaments to be worn on the person, ..."
3. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"Three more breastpins were promised. They were hardly gone when nine more Mrs.
... Nine breastpins were promised, and the weird sisters flied out again. ..."
4. How to Use New Thought in Home Life: A Key to Happy and Efficient Living for by Elizabeth Jones Towne (1915)
"But nowadays we can see gold breastpins and feathers without being eaten up with
jealousy, and we have learned that God preaches through the theater and the ..."
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