breastpin

He wore no ornaments, except ear-rings, a plain breastpin, and one or two rings on the fingers.

Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? 1870

She wears an oldfashioned apron all the time and in cool weather there is always a little black cape around her frail shoulders and held together with a plain old gold "breastpin".

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

"I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin."

Sole Music 2010

Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it.

The Lady from the Sea 2008

Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it.

The Lady from the Sea 2008

Wrapped in the little parcel was a breastpin worth at least two and one-half guilders, and ultramodern.

Tales From The Secret Annex Frank, Anne 1983

Sally was in high feather at the success of her exploit, and danced about like an elf, as she put her night-gown on over her frock, braided her hair in funny little tails all over her head, and fastened the great red pin-cushion on her bosom for a breastpin in honor of the feast.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

But when you see your grandma or great-auntie wearing a lovely old-fashioned breastpin, bound around with gold, and holding a pink stone, shining like crystal, with a white carved head or other figure standing out from the lower stone, you may know it is a very valuable ornament, and was probably made from one of the finest shells found in the sea.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

For where, pray, would Lord Dolphin wear a breastpin, or how would he look with a string of coral beads about his neck, or a bracelet pinched about his tail?

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat, -- one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various