earringedadj.
/ˈɪərɪŋd/, U.S. /ˈɪ(ə)ˌrɪŋd/ Wearing earrings. Also with prefixed modifying adjective.
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earringed1758
1758 London Chron. 14 Nov. 474/3 A warrior is accommodé, painted, ear-ringed, in a word, a furious beau.
a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) iii. xiii. 235 We were saluted as we entered by one of those ear-ringed, red-capped blackguards.
1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water I. xvi 280 The ear-ringed, ringleted sailors.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker viii. 123 Some ear-ringed fisher of the bay.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 561/1 His black-browed, ear-ringed kind knew him of an older race.
1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xiii. 192 The earringed Jewess.
1961 Times 4 Sept. 5/7 A dowdy, pearly-ear-ringed, dowager-like old gentleman.
2011 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 14 June 17 Heavily tattooed and emphatically earringed, his hair shaved close.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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