ear ornament

collocation in English

meaningsofearandornament

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ear
noun[C]
uk
/ɪər/us
/ɪr/
either of the two organs, one on each side of the head, by which people or animals hear sounds, or the piece of skin and tissue outside the head connected to ...
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ornament
noun
uk
/ˈɔː.nə.mənt/us
/ˈɔːr.nə.mənt/
an object that is beautiful rather ...
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(Definition ofearandornamentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Artifacts of wood that have been found include dugout canoes, paddles, bowls, ear ornaments, masks, plaques, ornamental standards, and a finely carved deer head.
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He had been wearing five beads, a pendant and two ear ornaments of greenstone; oneearornamentwas still in place by his left temporal bone.
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The helices are realistically rendered; some figurines have circular depressions in the lobes of both ears that may represent either the concha opening or the location of anearornament.
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Each ear has a prominentearornamentthat descends from the earlobe to the base of the monument.
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Dancers wear specially designed, beaded jewellery: necklaces, bracelets, armbands and ear ornaments.
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Artifacts of wood that have been found include dugout canoes, paddles, bowls, ear ornaments, masks, plaques, ornamental standards, and a finely carved deer head.
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Lost-wax casting produced some of the region's typical gold wire and delicate wire ornament, such as fine ear ornaments.
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Some of these elite members were buried in temple platforms with numerous ceramic offerings, spondyllus shell and jade ear ornaments.
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They used the dried heads as ear ornaments.
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The figure also has conch shell and bead ear ornaments and a raccoon skin headdress.
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Some characters' headdressings include ear ornaments as well as earrings.
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Perforated bone pendants, used either in necklaces or ear ornaments, were also found at the site.
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The ear ornaments are complex and are larger at the front of the ear than at the back.
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The culture is also typified by its unique ear ornaments featuring two-headed animals.
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The head is sculpted with a simple headdress with a wide band that is otherwise unadorned, and wears rectangular ear ornaments that project forwards onto the cheeks.
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The adult's badly decayed skeleton was wrapped in a mat and accompanied by offerings of fine jade, including ear ornaments and a necklace of sculpted figurines.
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