stickpin

IPA: stˈɪkpɪn

noun

  • (US) An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.
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Examples of "stickpin" in Sentences

  • When I poked it with my gold stickpin, shiny heart-shaped confetti cascaded around me.
  • A friend of mine had a lovely diamond stickpin that he wore in his tie, despite many warnings.
  • And shortly after that, it was as though someone took a - a stickpin and - and then hit a balloon.
  • Clad in tailcoat, weskit and tophat, with ascot and stickpin, every bit the Victorian gentleman, I would greet customers into the store.
  • He was attired in perfectly-tailored evening-dress, and the cut of the suit suggested that the large diamond stickpin in his cravat was the genuine article and not paste.
  • Much as Smith wore an earthy rumpled sports jacket to contrast himself with starched lawyers, she came in conservative garb: a single strand of pearls and a little stickpin on a charcoal-gray suit.
  • In 1926, now in her 60s and egged on by her friends, this alter ego ventured out into high society as Spanish gentleman Don Carlos Balmori, complete with "overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache."
  • The thick red-gold hair had been brushed to a smooth gleam that swept the collar of a fine lawn shirt with tucked front, belled sleeves, and lace-trimmed wrist frills that matched the cascade of the starched jabot at the throat, decorated with a ruby stickpin.

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