Citations:nosering

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English citations of nosering

Noun: "alternative form of nose ring"[edit]

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  • 1993 — Mohsen Saeidi Madani, Impact of Hindu Culture on Muslims, M D Publications Pvt Ltd (1993), →ISBN, page 146:
    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.
  • 1995 —Ashok Jerath, The Splendour of Himalayan Art and Culture, Indus Publishing Company (1995), →ISBN, page 15:
    Bead necklaces, earrings, noserings popularly known as nath, toerings, bangles of various strengths are but a few ornaments used by the ladies.
  • 2002 — Esther David, Book of Esther, Viking (2002), →ISBN, page 369:
    [] My mother and grandmother wore nine-yard saris, with heavy anklets, armlets, waist belts and enormous noserings, but they observed all the Jewish rituals.'
  • 2007 — Heather Byer, Sweet: An Eight-Ball Odyssey, Riverhead Books (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    [] I'll meet Valerie, who I've seen before at pool bars and admired from afar, and will watch her swing her black hair and flaunt her nosering and do things her way; []
  • 2007 — Kristen Tsetsi, Homefront, Penxhere Press (2007), →ISBN, page 225:
    A woman with dyed black hair and a greenstone nosering returns to a story she must have almost finished before I came in.