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nose ring

noun

  1. a ring inserted in the nose of an animal, to facilitate leading it.
  2. a ring worn as an ornament in the nose.


nose ring

noun

  1. a ring fixed through the nose, as for leading a bull
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of nose ring1

First recorded in 1780–90
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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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