Nose-jewels

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Nose-jewels
     Only mentioned in Isa. 3:21, although refered to in Gen. 24:47,
     Prov. 11:22, Hos. 2:13. They were among the most valued of
     ancient female ornaments. They "were made of ivory or metal, and
     occasionally jewelled. They were more than an inch in diameter,
     and hung upon the mouth. Eliezer gave one to Rebekah which was


     of gold and weighed half a shekel...At the present day the women
     in the country and in the desert wear these ornaments in one of
     the sides of the nostrils, which droop like the ears in
     consequence."