What is "tiepin"

Usage examples of "tiepin".

Then I saw Tiepin look at a dark blue motor down the street, surreptitiously raise his hand.

Tom Zwingler had to change his clothes for something lighter and left his ruby tiepin and cufflinks with Billy for safekeeping.

When I awoke, I was staring at the glint of a diamond tiepin in the blue-white morning light slanting through the window.

First she smelled the jacket and the vest while she took the watch chain out of the buttonhole and removed the pencil holder and the billfold and the loose change from the pockets and placed everything on the dresser, and then she smelled the hemmed shirt as she removed the tiepin and the topaz cuff links and the gold collar button, and then she smelled the trousers as she removed the keyholder with its eleven keys and the penknife with its mother-of-pearl handle, and finally she smelled the underwear and the socks and the linen handkerchief with the embroidered monogram.

His sharp suit was rumpled and torn, his diamond tiepin lacking in lustre.

He sported heavy gold jewellery and a diamond tiepin that twinkled like a star.

She knew when to mend a sock and when to throw it out, where he had left his diamond tiepin and his reading glasses, she banked his money, paid his bills and soothed his corns.

There were more drawers full of underwear, sweaters, ties, tiepins and cufflinks, even a few elastic armbands.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Kelp and Chefwick were filling their pockets with earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, watches, tiepins, a golden dollar sign money clip clutching nearly eight hundred dollars, and whatever other sparkly items attracted their magpie eyes.

In other pockets he had several cufflinks and tiepins belonging to Arnold Chauncey.

The old men had their shirt studs, tiepins, gold watches, silver cigarette boxes.

There were lots of gold cuff links, expensive watches, even jewelled tiepins, and every left pinky in that room had a diamond ring, except mine.