bonnet skewer

noun

Definitions

  1. A hatpin.

    • What do you wear these huge dagger bonnet-skewers for? They're big enough to kill a man with.
    • The damsel of today carries neither parasol nor bonnet skewer, but that, hasn't cut down the occupational hazards of mashing.

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