nose-rings

They wore nose-rings of clam-shell and turtle-shell, and from the ends of their noses which were also pierced, projected horns of beads strung on stiff wire.

Chapter 1 2010

Sheldon knelt beside him, the house-boys grouped around, their white singlets and loin-cloths peculiarly at variance with their dark skins and savage countenances, their huge ear-plugs and carved and glistening nose-rings.

Chapter 3 2010

The speaker is, we learn, identical in appearance to the listener; (we're even given details suggestive of that appearance -- "blemishes and nose-rings"), has been made that way on the bequest of "bosses" who thought it would somehow help in some sort of mission they have apparently sent him on.

Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One" Hal Duncan 2008

The speaker is, we learn, identical in appearance to the listener; (we're even given details suggestive of that appearance -- "blemishes and nose-rings"), has been made that way on the bequest of "bosses" who thought it would somehow help in some sort of mission they have apparently sent him on.

Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Other people die to protect their rights to crappy CD collections, daisy chains, nose-rings and hempfest.

Sound Politics: United 93 2006

Suppose our ladies took to wearing of bangles and nose-rings?

The Virginians 2006

There were men from the north with heavy brass collars and anklets; men with quills in their ears, and earrings and nose-rings; shaven heads, and heads with wonderfully twisted hair; bodies naked or all but naked, and bodies adorned with skins and necklets.

Prester John 2005

The rich perfume the skin with rose and cinnamon-scented oils, and adorn the hair with Al-Shayh (Absinthium), sweetest herb of the Desert; their ornaments are bracelets, collars, ear and nose-rings of gold, silver, or silver-gilt.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The acrobats, on the other hand, claimed to be brothers named Chavana, but though they were all short, compact men, they ranged in coloring from green-eyed Taeric — his high cheekbones and hooked nose proclaiming Saldaean blood — to Barit, who was darker than Juilin and had Sea Folk tattoos on his hands, though he wore no earrings or nose-rings.

The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

Jewels glittered in nose-rings and earrings, and in the hilts of their daggers.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989