Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a four-in-hand harness, a ring, fixed at the crown of the bridle of a wheel-horse, through which the lead-rein for one ot the leaders passes.
- noun A decoration worn by the men of the Kafirs after marriage, consisting of a leaflet of palm secured permanently to the woolly hair, and covered with vegetable wax or other material used for dressing the hair.
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Examples
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She wore an embroidered red cloth over her blue print dress, and a beaded head-ring.
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She wore an embroidered red cloth and a beaded head-ring.
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You have cast the head-ring of the nobly nurtured,
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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It was only next morning, when they had mounted and were about to start, that one, with the head-ring of dignity about his scalp, gave a word of counsel.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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Senzanga -- the man without a head-ring, and one other, had fallen into an old elephant-pit, the surface of which was completely covered over with brushwood.
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His battered head-ring, being attached only by one side, shook as if it would fall off on account of the motion caused by his walking.
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Kaffir's head-ring done in gold, and I shall have had enough of Kaffirs.
Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Just as he reached it, he caught sight of Maputa riding along the footpath, his head-ring covered with mud, his lips purple and his black face livid with rage.
Black Heart and White Heart Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Even old Umslopogaas, who was not in a general way given to the vain adorning of his body, took some oil out of the lantern and a bit of tow, and polished up his head-ring with it till it shone like Good's patent leather boots.
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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My hand seemed to go through his head-ring and the skull beneath, and to shut upon itself while he went on talking to someone else, a captain whom I recognised, yes, one Faku, whom in the days of Dingaan, the Black One's brother, I myself slew upon the Ghost-Mountain.
She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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