stickpin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stickpin
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My first professionally published work appeared in Ms., and I still have a stickpin with the magazine’s logo — remember stickpins and how popular they were in the ’80s?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2020
He wore a well-tailored midnight-blue suit—even in the sixties he wore suits—and a stickpin through his collar.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
You could have heard a diamond stickpin drop.
From Forbes ● Oct. 8, 2013
Her father — "a sharp, beautiful dude with a diamond stickpin" — would have none of that.
From Time ● May 10, 2010
In the man’s red-dotted tie was a dazzling horseshoe stickpin, glaring conspicuously.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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