单词 | nose peg |
释义 | > as lemmasnose peg nose peg n. ΚΠ 1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 311 It is at this time that the Tutnurring are invested with the belt of manhood, the kilt,..nose-peg, necklace, in fact with the full male dress. 1935 H. H. Finlayson Red Centre xii. 118 The nose-peg..is a hardwood cylinder expanding to a disk at one end and a smaller pointed cone at the other... The young camel is thrown, the cartilage of the left nostril pierced.., and the peg pushed through the wound. 2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. (Features section) She jokes that her house is so untidy that if the people from Hello! magazine came ‘they'd have to wear nose pegs.’ < as lemmas |
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