Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "nose-ring".
Not one vestige of clothing did they have on, unless nose-rings, ear-plugs, and shell armlets be accounted clothing.
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.