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EARRING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("earring" is a kind of...):
jewellery; jewelry (an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earring"):
drop earring; eardrop; pendant earring (an earring with a pendant ornament)
Context examples:
As Meg went rustling after, with her long skirts trailing, her earrings tinkling, her curls waving, and her heart beating, she felt as if her fun had really begun at last, for the mirror had plainly told her that she was 'a little beauty'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The other is a man’s, sun-burned, discoloured, and also pierced for an earring.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The 'queer feeling' did not pass away, but she imagined herself acting the new part of fine lady and so got on pretty well, though the tight dress gave her a side-ache, the train kept getting under her feet, and she was in constant fear lest her earrings should fly off and get lost or broken.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When I observed that the knot was one which is popular with sailors, that the parcel had been posted at a port, and that the male ear was pierced for an earring which is so much more common among sailors than landsmen, I was quite certain that all the actors in the tragedy were to be found among our seafaring classes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
