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Earring

noun

Jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe.

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pendant earring

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"Earring" Quotes from Famous Books

... a lover wishing that he were a necklace of his beloved, or her girdle, or her earring; but that is not a cosmic emotion at all. Indeed, the idea of Tennyson's pretty song was taken from old French and English love songs of the peasants—popular ballads. But in this beautiful sonnet of Keats, where the lover wishes to be endowed with the ...

— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn

Words linked to "Earring" : jewellery, eardrop, jewelry, drop earring, pendant earring