Crossword clues for earring
earring
- Jewellery calls for attention to collar
- Doing wrong to claim article is jewellery?
- Jewelry item
- Stud, e.g
- Stud poker?
- Piece of jewellery
- Lobe adornment
- Bit of women's wear
- Stud, for one
- One may hang by the neck
- Lobe ornament
- Lobe jewelry
- Lobe decoration
- Jewelry for a pierced lobe
- Hoop, for one
- Hoop or stud
- Hoop or drop, e.g
- Gypsy trinket
- Gypsy jewel
- Cuff, e.g
- "Girl With a Pearl ___" (Vermeer painting)
- Loop for a lobe
- It may hang by the neck
- Hoop jewelry
- Place for a stone
- Stud, e.g.
- Usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe
- Jewelry to ornament the ear
- Auricular adornment
- Article of adornment
- Adornment on a lobe
- Gift for a gypsy
- Piece of jewelry
- Pirate's ornament
- Pendant
- Making a mistake pocketing a piece of jewellery
- Accessory making money but keeping right to withhold name
- East Londoner's trial, after hiding queen's jewellery
- Wrong about a piece of jewellery
- Not hard for fish to swallow a piece of jewellery
- Being mistaken when clutching a piece of jewellery
- Item of jewellery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Earring \Ear"ring`\, n. An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.
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 alike; their use declined in the Middle Ages and was reintroduced in England 16c., but after 17c. were worn there almost exclusively by women.The two groups which had formerly a near monopoly on male earrings were Gypsies and sailors. Both has the usual traditions about eyesight, but it was also said that sailors' earrings would save them from drowning, while others argued that should a sailor be drowned and washed up on some foreign shore, his gold earrings would pay for a proper Christian burial. ["Dictionary of English Folklore"]
Wiktionary
n. A piece of jewelry worn on the ear.
WordNet
n. jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe
Wikipedia
An earring is a piece of jewellery attached to the ear via a piercing in the earlobe or another external part of the ear (except in the case of clip earrings, which clip onto the lobe). Earrings are worn by both sexes, although more common among women, and have been used by different civilizations in different times.
Locations for piercings other than the earlobe include the rook, tragus, and across the helix (see image at right). The simple term "ear piercing" usually refers to an earlobe piercing, whereas piercings in the upper part of the external ear are often referred to as " cartilage piercings". Cartilage piercings are more complex to perform than earlobe piercings and take longer to heal.
Earring components may be made of any number of materials, including metal, plastic, glass, precious stone, beads, wood, bone, and other materials. Designs range from small loops and studs to large plates and dangling items. The size is ultimately limited by the physical capacity of the earlobe to hold the earring without tearing. However, heavy earrings worn over extended periods of time may lead to stretching of the earlobe and the piercing.
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.