breastpin

[ brest-pin ]

/ ˈbrɛstˌpɪn /

a pin worn on the breast or at the throat; brooch.

Origin of breastpin

First recorded in 1825–35; breast + pin

In his necktie was a large diamond, and a star-shaped clustre of small ones furnished him with a breastpin.

Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia |Maturin M. Ballou
On the cliffs above my pasture are masses of moss, holding, as a pincushion holds a breastpin, little early saxifrage plants.

How To Write Special Feature Articles |Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
Now that breastpin has got to find its latitude; that you see will be a work of time.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends |Fanny Fern
Don't stick a breastpin in that shirt-bosom and go about with a strut!

The William Henry Letters |Abby Morton Diaz

He had placed in the little box with the breastpin a piece of paper on which he had given expression to his feelings in verse.

Barbara Blomberg, Complete |Georg Ebers

breastpin

/ (ˈbrɛstˌpɪn) /

a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment