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Definition of Earrings
1. earring [n] - See also: earring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earrings
Literary usage of Earrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
""My earrings! my earrings! they were pearls in silver set. ... But remember he
my lips had kissed, pure as those earrings pale: When he comes back, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"My earrings! my earrings! oh, luckless, luckless well! For what to say to Muja,
alas! I cannot tell. "I'll tell the truth to Muga, and I hope he will ..."
3. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the by Canadian Bible Society (1891)
"And they spread а garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof. and put it in his city, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"earrings have always formed an important branch of artistic jewelry. ...
Royal earrings were sometimes in the >hape of an asp. set with precious stones. ..."
5. A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum with a Chronicle of Excavations Undertaken by John Linton Myres (1899)
"earrings. Though the collection catalogued below contains a large majority of
... Plate VII) :— earrings all originate in a simple ring or loop of metal, ..."
6. A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum by Samuel Birch, Charles Thomas Newton (1870)
"with earrings and a necklace ; from the base of the neck flowers and tendrils
diverge on either side ; the hair is partially confined under a cap open ..."
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