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ˈnose-ring [f. nose n.] 1. A ring fixed in an animal's nose.
1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric., Digest 49 Nose rings will reclaim them, be they ever so riotous. 2. A ring-shaped ornament worn in the nose.
1819Keats Cap & Bells (1848) II. 227 His turban wreath'd of gold,..Mustachios, ear-ring, nose-ring, and his sabre keen. 1839Thackeray Major Gahagan i, I..carried away Scindiah's nose-ring with a pistol-ball. 1864Spencer Illustr. Progress 90 From nose-rings to ear-rings. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xix. 545 The bride..wears a gold brow-pendant and nose-ring. 1964S. M. Shdeek Windswept & Other Stories (1969) 14 Earrings and nose-rings twinkled. Hence ˈnose-ringed ppl. a.
1925E., O., & S. Sitwell Poor Young People 7 Like my black Nose-ringed lumbering bear. |