pincushion

[ UK /pˈɪnkʊʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use
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  • Vibrantly colored beadwork spilled across the fabric of souvenir pincushions, picture frames and wallpockets designed to appeal to throngs of eager tourists.
  • There are over 160 ceremonial and personal cloths - parokhets and Torah mantles, circumcision cloths and ornate talliths, hallah covers, tablecloths, pincushions, caps, bags, and more, photographed in full color to show the exquisite work and the care taken in handing them down through generations.
  • Our eyes met and the words dirty bomb flitted through my mind as I watched nails imbed in him, turning him into a human pincushion. Mercy Kill
  • * cosmos, pincushion flower (scabiosa), Russian sage and sage. Sun Journal
  • The seeds of the pincushion protea are buried in the ground by ants, and germinate only when mature plants have been killed by fire.
  • They do also feed from pincushion proteas, but do not damage the flowers significantly because the bracts are too narrow to be pierced or scratched by the birds' claws.
  • I also went over to Patchwork on Central Park yesterday and picked up some green fabric ready for the next bunch of pear pincushions.
  • This pattern can be used for a couvrette or pincushion cover, according to the size of the cotton with which it is worked. Beeton's Book of Needlework
  • Ray showed his young viewers how to make everything from pup pencil holders, to mushroom pincushions, to stocking mice.
  • Also called a bedeguar gall or Robin's pincushion, this gall is formed by a Cynipid wasp, Diplolepis rosae, that overwinters in the gall in the larval stage, then completes its life cycle in the spring.
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