earbob

ear·bob

(îr′bŏb′)
n. Chiefly Southern US
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earbob

(ˈɪərˌbɒb)
n
(Jewellery) Southern US a ring or ornamentation for the ear
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The moment he produced the glittering earbobs, the whimpering and whining of the sempiternal beldame was at an end.
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I didn't have to throw any sparkly earbobs into the Franklin stove, but the "household goods and personal effects" I'll be allowed to keep are a fraction of the things I've collected over the years.
Country ham: after a series of reinventions, actor--carpenter--porn star--playwright Tom Judson pulls up stakes and heads west
Even his ears, which he had pierced and hung with red earbobs, seemed to have been crushed to the side of his head.
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The Wind Done Gone tips its hat to this famous illustration, showing a photograph of a beautiful Black woman--surely Randall's narrator Cynara, Rhett Butler's mulatta mistress and later wife--seated at a table, quill in hand, dressed elegantly if flashily in satins and laces, earbobs dangling amidst glossy curls.
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