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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ornament inserted in some part of the nose, as a nose-ring. The nose-ornaments represented in Aztec sculpture are often of other than ring form.
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Some among them wore a nose-ornament which Cook had not met with in New Zealand.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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