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Hatpin   Listen
noun
hatpin  n.  A long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hatpin" Quotes from Famous Books



... young woman of Lamar has invented a new kind of social diversion. It is the "progressive peanut party." Four guests are seated about each table, and on the table is placed a crock full of peanuts. Each guest is provided with a hatpin, and when the word is given all begin jabbing for peanuts. The quartet that empties its crock first wins the game, and then the sets of players change. It is needless to say that the peanut party is strictly ...
— Cupology - How to Be Entertaining • Clara

... came her hatpin, and she made a lunge at Sheeny Rose. The other was on her guard. Hatpin in hand, she parried the thrust and lunged back. In a moment the girls had made a ring about the two, shutting them out of sight. Within it the desperate women thrust and parried, backed and squared off, ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... he returned promptly, and started to hunt in the dark. He had to get up and push up his seat before the hatpin was recovered. ...
— The Rover Boys at Colby Hall - or The Struggles of the Young Cadets • Arthur M. Winfield

... degree. Wait till you see it. I adore nice noses. Your nose is awfully nice, Anne Shirley. Alonzo's nose nearly turned the balance in his favor. But ALONZO! No, I couldn't decide. If I could have done as I did with the hats—stood them both up together, shut my eyes, and jabbed with a hatpin—it would have been ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... and I've missed my train at the Junction already, and I don't know what to do. Everybody was invited and the supper won't keep, and I lost my solid silver hatpin, anyway." ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett



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