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
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
"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
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 McClung, Nellie L.
C'mon over and help me hunt for that bar pin I lost.
From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon
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