Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A finger-ring.
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Examples
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She drew from the ring-finger of her left hand the hoop-ring, set in valuable brilliants, which had given rise to their first serious conversation.
The Coming Conquest of England August Niemann 1879
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Fig. 145 furnishes a good example of a fashion of hoop-ring prevalent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, flat inside and angular outside.
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