Meaning of nose-ringed | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing a nose ring.

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Examples

“We shall grant all this, but it must still be admitted, that it were totally inconsistent with the elegant genius and chaste taste of Tacitus to make a tatooed, nose-ringed, naked Hottentot of a chief expatiate, in a stream of eloquence which has never been surpassed, on the sacred beauty of freedom, the anathematised deformity of slavery, and to conjure a band of untamed barbarians, rude of intellect and savage of mind, by the glory of their ancestors to protect their country and to vindicate its rights.”

“She is decidedly better than the nose-ringed Queen Aliquippa of Dr. McHenry, and not much worse than the squaws in Mr. Cooper’s ‘Prairie.’”

“And perhaps the Web postings noticed by Beinart were the tasteless snarky bile of nose-ringed teenagers still working out their Freudian issues.”

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