Meaning of labretifery | Babel Free

Definitions

the practice of wearing labrets

uncountable

Examples

“In Africa labretifery is quite common, and varies from tribe to tribe.”

“They include labretifery, tattooing the chin of adult women, certain uses of masks, a certain style of conventionalizing objects, the use of conventional signs as hieroglyphics, [...] and of artistic representations connected with their common religious or mythological ideas.”

“Labretifery occurred over a wide distribution from the Kuriles to southern British Columbia in the late prehistoric period.”

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