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
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.
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 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 Wright, Mabel Osgood
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
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