earringed

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adjective

Wearing an earring or earrings.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveearringed (not comparable)

alternative ear-ringed

  1. not comparableWearing an earring or earrings.

    It was made with a local and very restricted audience in mind, which did not attach a stigma to an earringed man.

    2013, Andreas J. M. Kropp, “Royal portraits”, in Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 bc–ad 100, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section “Emesans”, page 83
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    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 Dress: Objects, Texts, Images (The New Middle Ages), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part three (The Late Middle Ages), page 199

    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

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