Meaning of ring-fingernail | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“This was a gipsy queen—they are all queens—who had camped with her wagons down by the walnut spring⟳, and she read⟳ fate “in the palm of the hand, one hair of the head, and a clipping of the ring-fingernail.””

“Lewis Tedesco, 40, of 40 Willow Street, Port Chester, a short-order chef at Finch’s Drug Store, Havemeyer Place⟳, Greenwich, was taken to the Greenwich Hospital yesterday at 6:30 P. M. by police after he had part of his right ring-fingernail torn off when he was operating a slicing machine.”

“Penn (last⟳ name⟳ Jillette; he’s the taller, louder one with red polish on his left ring-fingernail) remembers what it was to be a kid back then, when the late movie on TV every Friday and Saturday nights was certain to be a monster flick.”

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