hat·pin

(hăt′pĭn′)

A long straight pin usually with an ornamental head, used to secure a hat to the wearer's hair.

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hatpin

(ˈhætˌpɪn)

(Clothing & Fashion) a sturdy pin used to secure a woman's hat to her hair, often having a decorative head

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

hat•pin

(ˈhætˌpɪn)

n.

a long pin, often with a decorative head, for securing a woman's hat to her hair.

[1890–95]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

hatpin - a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair

pin - a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things

Translations

spillone [da cappello]

hatpin

[ˈhætpɪn] N → alfiler m de sombrero

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hatpin

[ˈhætpɪn] n → épingle f à chapeau

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hatpin

[ˈhætˌpɪn] n → spillone m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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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 quite easy."

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She never told me of those marks on her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well that they come from a stab with a hatpin. The sly devil--God forgive me that I should speak of him so, now that he is dead.

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But you know as well as I do that the hatpins did the work.

Just an hour, dear fairy, so we can remember how the grass and poplar trees looked, and the bow of those bonnet strings tied beneath her chin--even if it was the hatpins that did the work.

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Saxon, still unaccountably fumbling with her hatpins, stole a glance at him.

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There were no variously coloured hatpins on her dressing-table; no scent-bottles; no narrow curved pairs of scissors; no great variety of shoes and boots; no silk petticoats lying on the chairs.

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It is a line of my own blood, a dot pricked with a hatpin, because yes, my mother carries hatpins.

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