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 "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"To this day ma believes that five-hundred-dollar bar pin I brought her two years ago from Pittsburgh cost fifty at auction."

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie

Beneath that pompadour, however, her face was aglow with interest and her eyes gleamed almost as brightly as did the brand-new lavalliere and the bar pin with its huge six-carat center diamond.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Realest of all, there reposed on Miss Jevne's bosom a bar pin of platinum and diamonds—very real diamonds set in a severely plain but very real bar of precious platinum.

From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna

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 Brehm, Worth

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