bar pin

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.

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

C'mon over and help me hunt for that bar pin I lost.

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon

"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