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Mourning ring   /mˈɔrnɪŋ rɪŋ/   Listen
Mourning ring

noun
1.
A ring worn as a memorial to a dead person.






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"Mourning ring" Quotes from Famous Books



... mentioned in the Will," said Mr. Mool, "is a legacy to Lady Northlake." Mrs. Gallilee's face turned as hard as iron. "One hundred pounds," Mr. Mool continued, "to buy a mourning ring."' Mrs. Gallilee's eyes became eloquent in an instant, and said as if in ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins

... it die," or rather lose the form with which it was sown. Eight stanzas of four lines each have made the author of "The Burial of Sir John Moore" an immortal, and endowed the language with a classic, perfect as the most finished cameo. But what is the gift of a mourning ring to the bequest of a perpetual annuity? How many lives have melted into the history of their time, as the gold was lost in Corinthian brass, leaving no separate monumental trace of their influence, but ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes



Words linked to "Mourning ring" :   band, ring



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