ˈear-ringed, a.
[f. ear-ring + -ed2.]
Wearing ear-rings.
| a 1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) iii. xiii. 235 We were saluted as we entered by one of those ear-ringed, red-capped blackguards. 1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water xvi, The ear-ringed, ringleted sailors. 1892 Stevenson & Osbourne Wrecker viii. 123 Some ear-ringed fisher of the bay. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 561/1 His black-browed, ear-ringed kind knew him of an older race. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xiii. 192 The earringed Jewess. |