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Masher's bugaboo
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hatpin
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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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He leaned over her, removed her cheap hatpin and her old straw hat. ▪ He picked up my white cloth hat and fastened it to my hair with a hatpin . ▪ Her black straw hat, secured by a beaded hatpin , had seen its best days long ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair.
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.