pincushion

Definitions

Examples

• The cloth version was introduced and a pincushion bracelet was brought in.

• It is well to carry in your pocket a small pincushion, and, having unfolded your napkin, to pin it at the belt.

• Upstairs she took the library key from the place where she always hid it under her pincushion—who said she wasn't careful?

• The pincushion is not in the way and is readily worn so that the pins are easier to reach than if pinned to the dress.

• The examples from pincushion onwards occur only in distinctly careless speech.

• Then going to her dressing table she drew the hatpin from the pincushion and carelessly slipped the rings on her fingers.