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Jewelry to ornament the ear
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earring
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Word definitions for earring in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also ear-ring , Old English earhring , from ear (n.1) + hring (see ring (n.)). Another Old English word was earspinl . Now including any sort of ornament in the ear; the pendant sort originally were ear-drops (1720). Worn by Romanized Britons and Anglo-Saxons ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe
Usage examples of earring.
Her brother Tam, who loved music, anything from Swan Lake -- he had given the earrings to Odette -- to aleatory concertos.
Irina, still waiting to be acknowledged, glowered at the tall blonde in the beplumed, winter-white SaintLaurent suit and canotry diamond earrings.
Both Julius and his father knew that when Bijou Frank took her leave Mrs Herz would revert to her former self, would remove her necklace and her earrings, and as like as not change into a dressing-gown.
Her hair was piled up on her head and held in place by silver combs and a length of silk, in a style worn by many Busk women, and she wore no jewelry apart from long silver earrings.
With the earring Skuld had taken from Byrt, the flying scout would be able to pass close to Mezro and take stock of the preparations.
They were set in a nine-million-dollar pair of earrings, each carat costing three hundred thousand dollars.
She lay on the deep furs at the foot of the couch, chained by the ankle, branded, in earrings.
Angelo ripped off a pair of gold and sapphire earrings which immediately replaced the brass pair he habitually wore, while Chubby picked an enormous necklace of garnets which he hung around his neck and preened like a teenage girl.
I found more cash, more stamps, more coins, and a fair amount of jewelry, including the watch and earrings from the Colcannon burglary.
As he tipped his hat back, Culler happened to catch sight of the earrings, and he froze.
Her hair is a thousand coils and dreadlocks of red and black pinned up over silver filigree earrings.
He had an unshaven chin, close-cropped dark hair, one earring danglingright earand the word HATE in black letters across the backs of the fingers of both hands.
By the time Petra had explained her Miss Fane was making her entrance, very fine indeed in ruby velvet with the twinkling earrings, and a great ruby and diamond jewel at her breast.
Rheba pulled on her shipclothes, fastened her earring and gathered up her robe.
Off came the cropped, tight-fitting broadcloth jacket of her blue-grey travelling costume, off came the high, white lawn fichu swathing her throat, off came the earrings, heavy bracelets and pointed grey kid slippers.