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

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

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

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

The salesman, who wore blue-and-white-striped soft collars with a bar pin across the front, does not even enter the story.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie