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earringed

earringed adjective: wearing an earring or earrings.

Adjective

earringed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an earring or earrings.
    • Earrings appear soon after: perhaps the first earringed black Magus in European art is in the Bavarian Master of the Polling Altarpiece’s eponymous work of 1444 (Munich, Alte Pinakothek).2002 December, Penny Howell Jolly, “Marked Difference: Earrings and “The Other” in Fifteenth–Century Flemish Art”, in Désirée G. Koslin, Janet E. Snyder, editors, Encountering Medieval Textiles and...
    • In Britain I visited pubs where earringed boys with long hair stood drinking a Sunday pint next to their dads in cloth caps.2006, Joe Boyd, chapter 8, in White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 66

Forms of earringed

alternative formear-ringed

Origin of earringed

From earring + -ed.

Questions about earringed

What does earringed mean?
Earringed means wearing an earring or earrings.
What part of speech is earringed?
Earringed is an adjective.

Words near earringed in the dictionary

  1. earrapes
  2. earraping
  3. earrasaid
  4. earreach
  5. earring
  6. earringed
  7. earringless
  8. earrings
  9. ears
  10. ears are burning
  11. ears to the ground

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