It's the earring to have next spring -- and the stranger, the better.
Men wear, passed through the lobe of the ear, an earring with malachite ornamentations, and often with an additional long pendant.
It seemed clear enough that the earring was not in the house.
The earring and the theft—her own theft—flashed into her memory together.
Why, when I saw only the one earring in, it struck my eye at once.
Were they to do so, and it were to come out that the earring had been returned, they would know I had done it.
But, on the other side, there was the assertion of the Islip people; and there was the earring.
Some pierced their ears with a thorn, and wore a small flower for an earring; but this was not very common.
He carried off the earring; and we had never seen him, or it, from that day to this.
Because,” answered the boy, “I cannot find an earring which the Princess lost as we were going through the forest together.
The two groups which had formerly a near monopoly on male earrings were Gypsies and sailors. Both has the usual traditions about eyesight, but it was also said that sailors' earrings would save them from drowning, while others argued that should a sailor be drowned and washed up on some foreign shore, his gold earrings would pay for a proper Christian burial. ["Dictionary of English Folklore"]