Crossword clues for stickpin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.
WordNet
n. a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie
Usage examples of "stickpin".
Beads and earrings, cuff links and stickpins create their own immaculate order, establish worlds that seem far preferable to the one Saul inhabits.
Jason and Jeremy, in their stickpins and fancy weskits, seemed bright and a little dudish standing next to them in the flickering atmosphere of gaslight and crystal.
Thereafter, when he came back from these forays into the depths of the bog he often had gifts not only for Rebecca, to whom he gave lovely cameos, but gifts of pearls and diamonds for Camille, and even fine stickpins and cuff links with diamonds for William to wear.
Their dark features were concealed beneath the brims of fedoras pinned and hung with fragments of antique gold: stickpins, charms, teeth, mechanical watches Bobby watched them covertly.
He wore an ascot tie that had been tied about 1880, and the green stone in his stickpin was not quite as large as a trash barrel.
He wore a wing collar and a black silk ascot tie held in place by a gray pearl stickpin.
In the flowing ascot tie that spread downward fanwise from his chin was thrust the customary stickpin that no well-dressed man was ever without, in this case a crescent of diamond splinters tipped by a ruby chip at each end.
His standard dress was a tail coat, double-breasted dove-gray vest, striped trousers, wing collar, black Ascot tie adorned with a gray pearl stickpin, and rimless nose-glasses attached to a long black ribbon pinned to his vest.
Big Joe was dressed in a cream-colored Palm Beach suit, pale green crepe de Chine shirt, brown silk tie with hand-painted angels held in place by a diamond horseshoe stickpin.
He was quite tall and lean, and had a penchant for elegant silk ties and old-fashioned finery such as vests, cuff links, pocket watches and stickpins.
Anyhow, one day she ran off to Chicago with a handsome law clerk who wore store clothes and a gold stickpin.
A pair of bulky figures, their faces vagued by holoveil, wearing identical black wide-brimed hats, with bulky bodies packed into near identical black suits and white shirts, each boasting a massive diamond stickpin, strode in and sat down without a word.
Rube was sitting in a wooden rocker, and he looked great: His suit had four buttons and high tiny lapels, and he wore a stand-up wing collar and a four-in-hand black tie with a gold stickpin.