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breastknot

noun

Etymology

From breast + knot.

  1. derived from *gnod-✻ — “to bind”
  2. inherited from *knuttô✻
  3. inherited from *knottō✻
  4. inherited from cnotta
  5. inherited from knotte
  6. compounded as breastknot — “breast + knot”

Definitions

  1. A pin worn on the breast as a fastening or ornament

    A pin worn on the breast as a fastening or ornament; a brooch.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for breastknot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA