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Something stuck in a bonnet
Answer for the clue "Something stuck in a bonnet ", 6 letters:
hatpin
Alternative clues for the word hatpin
- Women's headwear
- Millinery accessory
- Millinery item
- Millinery adjunct, perhaps
- Quaint fashion accessory
- A long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair
- Accessory that could also be used to attach a wimple
- Paint brush finally adapted into a device holding pillbox in place
- Handy weapon for women
Word definitions for hatpin in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hatpin is a decorative and functional pin for holding a hat to the head, usually by the hair. In Western culture , a hatpin is almost solely a female item and is often worn in a pair. They are typically around 20 cm in length, with the pinhead being the ...
Usage examples of hatpin.
A little red hat was attached by twenty long hatpins to her coarse dark hair, and she had a red skirt stiff and thick as a carpet.
Suspended from a web of delicate threads hang silverware, hatpins, and peacock feathers, silk cravats, plastic figurines, and artificial flowers.
One pulls open the bottom drawer and they study the array of hatpins still left to them.
Apparently, when things got to that point, he'd say something like, 'My dear, there's nothing I'd like better, truly, but I must tell you that I have a very savage and jealous mistress who if I so much as dallied with you, would cut my throat in bed or stab me in my bath (he was quite a bit like Marat, you know, Franz, and grew to be more so in his later years), besides dashing acid across your lovely cheeks and lips, my dear, or driving a hatpin into those bewitching eyes.