Hairpin
['heəpɪn] or ['hɛrpɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place.
Checker: Rita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.
Typist: Thaddeus
Examples
- Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A short piece of the thread was bent in the form of a hairpin, laid in a nickel mould and securely clamped, and then put in a muffle furnace, where it was kept for five hours. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You examined the room, I presume, to see if the intruder had left any traces--any cigar-end or dropped glove or hairpin or other trifle? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She went to the mirror to take out the hairpins from her hair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Safety pins, hooks and eyes, and hairpins, are generally made by pin concerns. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And hairpins, added Laurie, throwing half a dozen into Jo's lap. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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