ring-fingernail

plural ring-fingernails

1. alternativeAlternative form of ring fingernail.

   This was a gipsy queen—they are all queens—who had camped with her wagons down by the walnut spring, and she read fate “in the palm of the hand, one hair of the head, and a clipping of the ring-fingernail.”

   1899 November 5, “Echoes from Afton. Looking Back on the Fun of Halloween. About the Art of Divining. […]”, in The Richmond Dispatch, number 15,130, Richmond, Va., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1

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   Lewis Tedesco, 40, of 40 Willow Street, Port Chester, a short-order chef at Finch’s Drug Store, Havemeyer Place, Greenwich, was taken to the Greenwich Hospital yesterday at 6:30 P. M. by police after he had part of his right ring-fingernail torn off when he was operating a slicing machine.

   1947 May 9, “Rips Fingernail”, in The Daily Item, Port Chester, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 7

   Penn (last name Jillette; he’s the taller, louder one with red polish on his left ring-fingernail) remembers what it was to be a kid back then, when the late movie on TV every Friday and Saturday nights was certain to be a monster flick.

   1993 June 5, Scott Williams, “Broadcast Notes: Penn & Teller host monster marathon”, in The Boston Globe, volume 243, number 156, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 4