bar pin

American  

noun

1. a long, slender, decorative pin or brooch.

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Example Sentences

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 Literature

In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally it purchased a silver bangle a little larger than a ten-cent piece, had it hung from a bar pin, and inscribed "First Prize."

From Project Gutenberg

The salesman, who wore blue-and-white-striped soft collars with a bar pin across the front, does not even enter the story.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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