Definition of Breastpins

1. Noun. (plural of breastpin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Breastpins

1. breastpin [n] - See also: breastpin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Breastpins

breastfeedings
breastfeeds
breastful
breastfuls
breasthook
breasticle
breasticles
breasting
breastings
breastknot
breastknots
breastless
breastlike
breastmilk
breastpin
breastpins (current term)
breastplate
breastplated
breastplates
breastpoint
breastrail
breastrails
breastroke
breastrope
breastropes
breasts
breaststroke
breaststroked
breaststroker
breaststrokers

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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