pincushion
noun
pin·cush·ion
ˈpin-ˌku̇-shən 
: a small cushion in which pins may be stuck ready for use
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That last group includes a manual barrel and pincushion slider, along with a checkbox for Defringe.
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PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
Even his dahlias, plump like pincushions in plumes of white, purple and pink, took home first prize.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
Stony Brook could have chosen to place its center on the western edge, across from the Statue of Liberty, with lower Manhattan’s pincushion over in the corner of the panorama.
—Developing Governors Island, Curbed, 11 May 2023
The guest Yasmine Khatib of the Los Angeles flower studio Yasmine Floral Design provided a trio of pastel arrangements: white vases filled with foxgloves, pincushions, peonies, poppies and alliums.
—Jean Trinh, New York Times, 12 May 2023
The dog’s face looked like a pincushion, with some 500 spines protruding from her face, paws and body.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
But the collection that captivated many editors was a limited selection of designs based on the pincushion found on the wrists of les petite mains, the seamstresses who excel at couture needlework in the atelier’s workrooms.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
Why? The proud, efficient and bilious store manager, Pauline (Eva Kaminsky), is all business; her upswept hair is a pincushion of pens.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
The second plant was Navarretia mellita, or the honeyscented pincushion plant.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2016
PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
Even his dahlias, plump like pincushions in plumes of white, purple and pink, took home first prize.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
Stony Brook could have chosen to place its center on the western edge, across from the Statue of Liberty, with lower Manhattan’s pincushion over in the corner of the panorama.
—Developing Governors Island, Curbed, 11 May 2023
The guest Yasmine Khatib of the Los Angeles flower studio Yasmine Floral Design provided a trio of pastel arrangements: white vases filled with foxgloves, pincushions, peonies, poppies and alliums.
—Jean Trinh, New York Times, 12 May 2023
The dog’s face looked like a pincushion, with some 500 spines protruding from her face, paws and body.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
But the collection that captivated many editors was a limited selection of designs based on the pincushion found on the wrists of les petite mains, the seamstresses who excel at couture needlework in the atelier’s workrooms.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
Why? The proud, efficient and bilious store manager, Pauline (Eva Kaminsky), is all business; her upswept hair is a pincushion of pens.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
The second plant was Navarretia mellita, or the honeyscented pincushion plant.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2016
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pincushion
noun
pin·cush·ion
ˈpin-ˌku̇sh-ən
: a small cushion in which pins may be stuck
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