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English
Noun
pin-cushion (plural pin-cushions)
- Alternative form of pincushion
1671, [Richard Head], “He is Bound Prentice to a Taylor, the Knavery of that Trade, His Master of a Stitch, He is Turn’d over to a Baker, who Misusing Him He Runeth Away”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. The Second Part. , London: Printed for Francis Kirkman, , →OCLC; republished : , , →OCLC, page 113:Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.
1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, pages 191–192:He was accompanied by the honest Bonnet-maker, who, being, as the reader is aware, a little round man, had planted himself like a pin-cushion, (for he was wrapped in a scarlet cloak, over which he had slung a hawking-pouch,) on the top of a great saddle, which he might be said rather to be perched upon than to bestride.
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Two Bed-Chambers”, in Adam Bede , volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 276:She could see quite well the pegs in the old painted linen-press on which she hung her hat and gown; she could see the head of every pin on her red cloth pin-cushion; she could see a reflection of herself in the old-fashioned looking-glass, quite as distinct as was needful, considering that she had only to brush her hair and put on her nightcap.
1905, Edith Wharton, chapter XIV, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 528:The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.
Verb
pin-cushion (third-person singular simple present pin-cushions, present participle pin-cushioning, simple past and past participle pin-cushioned)
- Alternative form of pincushion
2011 June, Mary Tschoi, Erik A. Hoy, Mark S. Granick, “Skin Flaps”, in Deborah S. Hickman Mathis (guest editor), Nancy Girard, editors, Perioperative Nursing Clinics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, volume 6, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Company, Elsevier, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 180:A circular island flap may pin-cushion. This complication can be avoided with proper planning.
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