Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A knot of ribbon worn on the breast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A knot of ribbons worn on the breast.
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- noun A
pin worn on thebreast as afastening orornament ; abrooch .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A breastknot of valley lilies added to the loveliness, and I allowed my eyes to feast on her fairness.
Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902
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And she promised she never would, and gave him a sprig of rosemary out of her garden to wear for a breastknot.
The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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Faith took still closer note of the beauty of her breastknot; and then gathering up her crimson hood and cloak, they went down stairs.
Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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Yeoman of the Guard since bluff King Henry's time, and expected to hear something from you about the Field of the Cloth of Gold, -- and I thought of asking you the colour of Anne Bullen's breastknot, which cost the Pope three kingdoms; but I am afraid you are but a novice in such recollections of love and chivalry.
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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Gold, — and I thought of asking you the colour of Anne Bullen’s breastknot, which cost the Pope three kingdoms; but I am afraid you are but a novice in such recollections of love and chivalry.
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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