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单词 halfhoop
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half-hoop
half-hoop adj. and n. [compare hoop n.1 7] (a) adj. designating a ring, headband, etc., set with precious stones around half of its circumference; (b) n. a ring of this kind.
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1775 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 30 Aug. A half hoop ring with seven brilliants.
1902 Daily Chron. 14 June 10/4 The hair..is surmounted by a half-hoop diadem encrusted with precious stones.
1928 R. Hall Well of Loneliness xxi. 198 I made your mother's engagement ring for him; a large half-hoop of very fine diamonds.
2013 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 29 June (Review section) 8 Holloway is seeing intricate half-hoop diamond rings coming back into fashion.
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half-hoop
half-hoop n. [compare hoop n.1 7]
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1882 Times 31 Jan. 16/6 (advt.) Single-stone, half-hoop, and cluster rings.
1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 94 His wife..wears half-hoop diamond rings.
1902 Daily Chron. 14 June 10/4 The hair..is surmounted by a half-hoop diadem encrusted with precious stones.
1928 R. Hall Well of Loneliness xxi. 198 ‘I made your mother's engagement ring for him; a large half-hoop of very fine diamonds.’
1960 R. Collier House called Memory x. 150 Uncle William Henry bought Dora a half hoop of diamonds as an engagement ring.
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