earringed

English

Alternative forms

• ear-ringed

Etymology

From earring +‎ -ed.

Adjective

earringed (not comparable)

1. Wearing an earring or earrings.
   • 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:

     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).

   • 2006, Joe Boyd, chapter 8, in White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 66:

     In Britain I visited pubs where earringed boys with long hair stood drinking a Sunday pint next to their dads in cloth caps.

   • 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:

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