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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