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nose ring
noun
- a ring inserted in the nose of an animal, to facilitate leading it.
- a ring worn as an ornament in the nose.
nose ring
noun
- a ring fixed through the nose, as for leading a bull
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nose ring1
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Example Sentences
In another condition, they were wearing tattoos and nose rings and purple hair.
Amy Blakemore, an award-winning poet who dons a shaved head and nose ring, seems an unlikely choice for a fashion model.
And the next day he did the same thing, only he wore a new nose-ring, made of a sparkling shell.
Forget not, dear lad, that charity and honesty are the very nose-ring and halter of the true faith.'
So, next time her husband shot the pearl from her nose-ring, and said to her, “Was there ever a man as clever as I am?”
There is something about him as exotic as a samovar, as essentially un-American as a bashi-bazouk, a nose-ring or a fugue.
The gesture swung the heavy leading-bar, digging the nose ring cruelly into his sensitive nostrils.
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