Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A circular ornament worn in the septum of the nose or in either of its wings.
- noun A ring for the nose of an animal, as a bull or a pig.
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Examples
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The jewelry is delicate and plentiful, and includes several necklaces, numerous bracelets, large earrings, a wide slender hooped nose-ring, rather heavy anklets, and gold rings on all of her toes, and on most of her fingers (some sporting substantial gemstones).
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The jewelry is delicate and plentiful, and includes several necklaces, numerous bracelets, large earrings, a wide slender hooped nose-ring, rather heavy anklets, and gold rings on all of her toes, and on most of her fingers (some sporting substantial gemstones).
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Got a nose-ring and a tattoo -- within days of each other!
Me a badass? Noooo.... Jes Battis 2007
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A vivid early second millennium B.C. wall-painting fragment from the palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari (Syria), which depicts a male figure leading a bull by its golden nose-ring to a ritual sacrifice, ushers people into the next room.
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Maybi we kan put inna littlol tinee nose-ring adn put it in trakshun?
OMG, U PUSHED - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Got a nose-ring and a tattoo -- within days of each other!
Archive 2007-09-01 Jes Battis 2007
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When the camels had finished drinking, the servant gave Rebekah “a gold nose-ring weighing a half-shekel, and two gold bands for her arms, ten shekels in weight” (Gen. 24: 22).
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Jacob said to himself: “When Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, went to fetch Rebekah, he brought with him ten camels and all the bounty of his master (Gen. 24: 10), while I have not a single nose-ring or band.”
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She replied: “I have done as did Rebekah [for I gave both you and your ass to drink], but you did not act as did Eliezer [for you did not give me a gold nose-ring and arm bands].”
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You have been taught that to scratch the surface will shatter the wafer thin patina of the nose-ring Karl leads you around with.
Waldo Jaquith - Pew: Religious left rivals religious right. 2007
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