How to create a Label with close icon in Bootstrap?

Question

With Bootstrap 3, what might be a good way of getting a bordered label with close icon? An example of the sort of thing from Stack Overflow:

Answer 1

With Bootstrap 4 it could be done with

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and

.badge {
  .close {
    padding-right: $badge-padding-x;
    padding-left: $badge-padding-x;
    margin-right: -$badge-padding-x;
    font-size: inherit;
    color: inherit;
    text-shadow: none;
  }
}

It realized it PR https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/26823 but still didn't merged in master (delayed to v5).

Demo: https://codepen.io/gijsbotje/pen/OjOmby