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earring

, ear + ring.
Searchable Lemmata: earhring (OE), ere ring (ME), earring (MdE).
Alternate Forms: Aryng, eer rynges.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Jewellery; ornament worn on the ear; ornament or jewel worn from the ear lobe; ear ornament worn suspended from a bent wire or a thin loop passed through a hole pierced in the lobe of the ear or clipped to screwed to the lobe.(circa 1000 still in current use)
1. Inaures earpreonas ł earhringas. Gloss. Based on Isidore's Etymologiae, see INAURIS. [DOE AntGl 2 (Kindschi) (0118 (118))]
2. Thei 3eue to hym eche a shep, and a golden ere ring Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED WBible(1) ((Dc 369(1)) Job 42.11) ante 1382]
3. Take 3e the goldun eer rynges fro the eerys of wyues Biblical/Hagiographic. (work: a1382) [MED WBible(1) ((Corp-O 4) Ex.32.2) ante 1425]
4. Men and wymmen 3auen bies of the armes, and eeryngis, ryngis, and ournementis of the arm ni3 the hond [WB(1): and bee3is; L et dextralia]. Biblical/Hagiographic. (work: c1395) [MED WBible(2) ((Roy 1.C.8) Ex.35.22) ante 1425]
c.f.: earpreon, earspinl, inauris, urnement de oreilles
ME, MdE, OE.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: Secular    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Head.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OE.
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