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bonnet skewer en · NOUN
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(humorous, informal) A hatpin.
The damsel of today carries neither parasol nor bonnet skewer, but that, hasn't cut down the occupational hazards of mashing.
1948 June 15, The Southwest Times, Pulaski, Va., page 14, column 1:What do you wear these huge dagger bonnet-skewers for? They're big enough to kill a man with.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 90:
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