Crossword-Solution: HAIRPINS
We have 12 clues for the answer “HAIRPINS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Coiffeur's gear | 1 answer |
| Parts of some buns | 1 answer |
| Sharp road bends | 1 answer |
| They can be used as lock picks in a pinch (that's not a pun, they really can) | 1 answer |
| They hold coifs in place | 1 answer |
| They're invisible. | 1 answer |
| Tress holders | 1 answer |
| Very sharp turns | 1 answer |
| Bun holders | 2 answers |
| Some sharp turns | 2 answers |
| Beauty parlor items. | 3 answers |
| Sharp turns | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAECZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HAIRPINS (5)
Ray had lived long enough among the Mexicans to dislike fussiness, to feel that there was something more attractive in ease of manner than in absentminded concern about hairpins and dabs of lace.
Roger hummed a tune as he picked up the hairpins on the bedroom floor, and wondered to himself why women are always supposed to be more tidy than men.
Manville Smith (nee Finnegan) scorned the Winnebago shops, and was said to send to Chicago for her hairpins.
Why, say, Gabie, if I was to tell you what I spend in face powder and toilette water and hairpins alone, you'd think I'd made a mistake and given you the butcher bill instead.
There was the woman who's always hungry, nibbling chocolates out of a box; and the woman fallen asleep, with her hat on the side, and hairpins dropping out of her hair; and the woman who's beside herself with fear that she'll miss her train; and the woman who is taking notes about the other women's rigs.
Quotes with HAIRPINS (3)
But when oxidation nibbles more slowly - more delicately, like a tortoise - at the world around us, without a flame, we call it rust and we sometimes scarcely notice as it goes about its business consuming everything from hairpins to whole civilizations.
These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady’s things — hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.
For the hair, a few French hairpins and a tortoiseshell clip will dress up any bun!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1952–2013).