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Hairpin

noun

A double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place.

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"Hairpin" Quotes from Famous Books

... board goes down so slick you'd never know it lifted out." She fitted it in with shaking hands, and then with her nails and a hairpin got it out. "And way in, underneath, I had this box. I always set it on a flat stone." She spoke as if this oversight were the thief's ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... powder on her nose—that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a ...

— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... What can it mean? I should never have thought the maid—. Here is a broken hairpin. Nora, it ...

— A Doll's House • Henrik Ibsen

... scribbled, "and you'd better go to Min's for a few days. I'll write and leave you know if there is anything in it, otherwise there's no use getting Min and the girls started talking. There's ten dollars in the hairpin ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... takes of her apron, pulls out a small mirror from one of the table-drawers and leans it against the flower jar on the table; lights a tallow candle and heats a hairpin, which she uses to curl ...

— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg

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