Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supplied or surrounded with rings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective wearing a
ring - verb Simple past tense and past participle of bering.
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Examples
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Wait for the season of tribute films to begin and raise a dirty martini in as heavily beringed a hand as you can muster to the greatest screen icon, beauty and actress of them all.
This week: George Osborne, Carole Middleton, Elizabeth Taylor 2011
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From your lips to the beringed ears of those fickle, fickle Fates, m'dear.
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She brilliantly depicts the uproar over the nest removal as seen from inside an elegant first-floor apartment, where a coiffed and beringed woman sits on a plush sofa, forehead in hand, clearly suffering from the racket being made outside by protesters waving signs, activists in bird costumes and jostling photographers.
Children's Books 2008
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His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand.
Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall' Mantel, Hilary 2008
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Herod flung himself back on his couch and clasped his pudgy, beringed fingers on his belly.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Herod flung himself back on his couch and clasped his pudgy, beringed fingers on his belly.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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"Now, Haffy, my potentate of passion," his lovely wife Karina said, laying a scrumptiously plump beringed hand upon his chest while regarding him from her large and lovely eyes made deepest purple by art and by proximity to the priceless catseye chrysoberyl jewels she bore in abundance upon her shell-like ears, her delicate wrists, and her delicious decolletage.
First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005
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For example, if I want to marry a one legged, mustachioed, tatooed, beringed pirate I would set sail on a pirate ship.
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He poked a beringed forefinger in the bishop's chest.
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For a moment his plump, beringed hand rested against the small of her back.
Slightly Dangerous Balogh, Mary 2004
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