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nose-ringed

nose-ringed adjective: wearing a nose ring.

Adjective

nose-ringed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a nose ring.
    • We shall grant all this, but it must still be admitted, that it were totally inconsistent with the elegant genius and chaste taste of Tacitus to make a tatooed, nose-ringed, naked Hottentot of a chief expatiate, in a stream of eloquence which has never been surpassed, on the sacred beauty of...1825, Donald Campbell, An Essay on the Authenticity of Ossian’s Poems, Ayr: […] M‘Cormick & Carnie, page 19
    • She is decidedly better than the nose-ringed Queen Aliquippa of Dr. McHenry, and not much worse than the squaws in Mr. Cooper’s ‘Prairie.’1835, “The Cavaliers of Virginia; or, The Recluse of Jamestown”, in The New-England Magazine, volume VIII, Boston, Mass.: E. R. Broaders, […]. Eastburn’s Press, page 325

Forms of nose-ringed

alternative formnoseringed

Origin of nose-ringed

From nose ring + -ed.

Questions about nose-ringed

What does nose-ringed mean?
Nose-ringed means wearing a nose ring.
What part of speech is nose-ringed?
Nose-ringed is an adjective.

Words near nose-ringed in the dictionary

  1. nose-picker
  2. nose-pickers
  3. nose-picking
  4. nose-pickings
  5. nose-picks
  6. nose-ringed
  7. nose-shot
  8. nose-suspended
  9. nose-to-nose
  10. nosean
  11. noseans

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