bar pin
Americannoun
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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
She was dressed in the style of twenty years before, with her linen collar inside the high collar of her dress, which was fastened with a bar pin, straight and plain like herself.
From Purple Springs by Nellie L. McClung
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 The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Worth Brehm
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 Nicholas Carter
The result was a dress pattern of soft black silk, brocaded with a small leafy design, a graceful lace-edged, muslin fichu, and an onyx bar pin upon which three butterflies were outlined by tiny pearls.
From People of the Whirlpool by Mabel Osgood Wright
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