Crossword clues for hatpin
hatpin
- Headgear fastener
- Women's headwear
- Woman's weapon
- What an antique cushion may hold
- Vintage headwear fastener
- Vintage fashion accessory/weapon
- Something stuck in a bonnet
- Quaint headpiece accessory
- Pillbox poker
- Outdated weapon
- Old feminine weapon
- Millinery adjunct, perhaps
- Masher's bugaboo
- Handy weapon for women
- Fastener on a bonnet
- Cloche accessory
- Chapeau securer
- Chapeau decoration
- Accessory that could also be used to attach a wimple
- Bonnet securer
- Millinery accessory
- Hair attachment
- Quaint fashion accessory
- Sticker through a lady's headgear
- Millinery item
- Milliner's accessory
- A long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair
- Chapeau fastener
- Fashion accessory
- Paint brush finally adapted into a device holding pillbox in place
- I’m sharp, but would I ever make a fast bowler?
- Headgear fixer
- Fastener of a sort
- Cloche fastener
- Pillbox sticker
- Pillbox fastener
- Milliner's fastener
- Long sticker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hatpin \hatpin\ n. a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair.
Wiktionary
n. A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair.
WordNet
n. a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair
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 most decorated part.
The hatpin was invented to hold wimples and veils in place, and was handmade. In Britain, demand eventually outgrew the number that could be supplied by hand-making, and they began to be imported from France. In 1832 a machine was invented in America which could mass-produce the pins, and they became much more affordable. During the 1880s, bonnets gave way to hats, and the popularity of hatpins soared. They remained a standard women's accessory through the 1910s and were produced in a vast range of materials and types. Hatpin holder boxes were also produced.
Laws were passed in 1908 in America that limited the length of hatpins, as there was a concern they might be used by suffragettes as weapons. Also by the 1910s, ordinances were passed requiring hatpin tips to be covered so as not to injure people accidentally. Various covers were made, but poorer women often had to make do with ersatz items like potato pieces and cork. Hatpins are also collectible items, and there is an American Hatpin Society for collectors in the United States and The Hat Pin Society of Great Britain for collectors in the United Kingdom.
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.