nosering

plural noserings

1. alternativeAlternative form of nose ring.

   A woman with dyed black hair and a greenstone nosering returns to a story she must have almost finished before I came in.

   2007, Kristen Tsetsi, Homefront, Penxhere Press, →ISBN, page 225

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   On the first wedding night of the marriage ceremony, the husband removes the big nosering of the bride, which is the symbolic representation of the girl being a virgin till that moment.

   1993, Mohsen Saeidi Madani, Impact of Hindu Culture on Muslims, M D Publications Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 146

   […] My mother and grandmother wore nine-yard saris, with heavy anklets, armlets, waist belts and enormous noserings, but they observed all the Jewish rituals.'

   2002, Esther David, Book of Esther, Viking, →ISBN, page 369