noseringed

English

Adjective

noseringed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of nose-ringed
   • [1920?], Morris McDougall, “The Millet Fields”, in The Shadow of the Mosque: A Tale of Occupied Mesopotamia, Toronto, Ont.: The Ryerson Press, →OCLC, page 160:

     The women, tatooed, painted, carmined, noseringed, bespangled, grotesque, and yet each wearing the invisible cloak of native dignity, a heritage of the desert, bore water in jars on their heads or shoulders from the river.

   • 1941, William Rose Benét, “Rapsodie Espagnole and Scherzo Grotesque”, in The Dust Which Is God, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, book IV (The Triple Veil), pages 535–536:

     They stood aside and lied and lied and stood aside and lied (el popolo toro) till the animal died but lived not like the little noseringed swine who brought the Moors and Mussolini’s men and bloody Aryan bombers

   • 2000, Keri Davies, “Phoebe Aldridge”, in Who’s Who in The Archers 2001, London: BBC Worldwide Ltd, →ISBN, page 14:

     Product of the rather incongruous relationship between clean cut Roy Tucker and dreadlocked, noseringed Kate Aldridge, this little mite was born in a teepee at the Glastonbury Festival, was prevented from leaving the country by a court order, has been subjected to DNA testing and was named in a new age ceremony on Lakey Hill.