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breastpins

breastpins is the plural of breastpin.

Meaning of breastpin

Noun

breastpin (plural breastpins)

  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
    Synonyms:
    broach, brooch

Questions about breastpins

What is breastpins the plural of?
Breastpins is the plural of breastpin.

Words near breastpins in the dictionary

  1. breastlings
  2. breastmilk
  3. breastmilks
  4. Breaston
  5. breastpin
  6. breastpins
  7. breastplate
  8. breastplated
  9. breastplates
  10. breastplough
  11. breastploughs

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