Crossword clues for labret
labret
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Labret \La"bret\, n. [L. labrum lip.] (Anthropology) A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A form body piercing in which an adornment is attached to the lip; an adornment so attached.
Wikipedia
A labret is one form of body piercing. Taken literally, it is any type of adornment that is attached to the lip (labrum). However, the term usually refers to a piercing that is below the bottom lip, above the chin. It is sometimes referred to as a "tongue pillar" or a "soul patch piercing."
Usage examples of "labret".
He must know where his own labret had come from, and therefore what people had attacked Quondam.
He wears a jade labret in the shape of a swan and he has a jagged scar on his right thigh.
She had no tattoos, but the side of her nose was pierced and she wore a labret made of a small piece of carved and polished amber through the hole.
The man behind the counter wore a striped shirt, a tie with the Air Magellan logo repeated down it diagonally, and a green jade labret stud.
A sideways look from a girl with hooded eyes, a sharp and avian nose, round steel labret stud gleaming from beneath her lower lip.
McKelvie heard him out, told him to try to hold the judge for ten minutes, dashed over to his room at the Malaspina Hotel, and rummaged in his dressing case, looking for a double labret a lip ornament worn at one time by the women of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
By the time the privy councillors started drifting in, the long table was heaped with feathers and gold, jade labrets and glass-edged swords, a rainbow hodgepodge like wares in some bizarre bazaar.
There's no point in turning up with a suitcase full of the usual ball weights, pressure tusks and Labret studs, only to discover that this season's taste is for flesh tunnels, nipple clamps and stirruped barbells, and you've left all yours at home in the fridge.