Sentence:  ... footballers, fashionable Counsel, corrupt parliamentarians, glistening Under Secretaries from helpful Whitehall Ministries, Greek shipowners, cockney hairdressers, unlisted maharajahs, drunk magistrates, venal mayors, ruling princes of countries that have ceased to exist, prelates in suède boots and <WSD>pectoral</WSD> crosses... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest.