Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of wearing labrets.
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- noun the practice of wearing
labrets
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They included labretifery, tattooing the chin of adult women, certain uses of masks, a certain style of conventionalizing natural objects, the use of conventional signs as hieroglyphics, a peculiar facility in carving wood and stone, a similarity of angular designs on their pottery and basketry, and of artistic representations connected with their common religious or mythological ideas.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
she commented on the word labretifery
The only word in the English language ending in -tifery.
For shame.
August 6, 2008