bar pin
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Then she went to get a gold bar pin for her dress front, to make the neck higher, and I went out to the porch for a drink of well water.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Then it flew up on to the dressing-table, seized a small gold bar pin in its beak, and flew back into the ventilator pipe.
From The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories by Carter, Nicholas
Well, this morning I'm back for a bar pin of Baxter's I'd lost, and there he is again, no overcoat, shivering his teeth loose, and all in.
From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon
Almost under the scaffold he saw the shine of precious stones and called to her as he picked up the pin, a bar pin splendidly set with diamonds.
From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon
The salesman, who wore blue-and-white-striped soft collars with a bar pin across the front, does not even enter the story.
From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie
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