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ear lobe

noun

  1. the fleshy lower part of the external ear

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Procedures such as the repair of split ear lobes, fixing simple snoring and the reversal of male and female sterilisation are not permitted.

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His hands were cuffed in front of his wrinkled yellow jail T-shirt and his ear lobes were stretched with white paper plugs over his tattooed neck.

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The school district referred to its dress code, which says hair cannot be "below the top of a T-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down".

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The school says that the length of Darryl George’s hair, falling below his eyebrows and ear lobes, violates the school’s dress code.

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George was first pulled from his classroom in August after school officials said his locs fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code.

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