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bar pin
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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.
In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests.
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."
Associated words: claviger, clavigerous, cleidomancy, escutcheon, lock. key, n. pitch, tone. key, n. clew, solution, guide, explanation, elucidation, clavis; wharf, quay; forelock, cotter, bar, pin; samara. keyboard, n. clavier. kick, v. spurn, calcitrate, recalcitrate, winch; resist, oppose; recoil. kick, n. kicking, opposition. kicking, n. spurning, recalcitration, calcitration, winch; opposition, resistance. kicking, a. recalcitrant, calcitrant, resistant. kiddy, v.
The salesman, who wore blue-and-white-striped soft collars with a bar pin across the front, does not even enter the story.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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