Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ornament inserted into a perforation in the lip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of stone, bone, shell, or other material, inserted into the lip or into the cheek near the mouth, which is pierced for the purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a form of
body piercing in which an object is attached to thelip
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Among the means taken by these people to produce personal ornamentation that of tattooing the face and wearing a labret is the most noticeable.
The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871
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He said he has one tattoo on the middle of his back and six piercings - two ear gauges, an industrial piercing on his left ear, two nipple piercings and a labret, which is a piercing below the lip and above the chin.
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He said he has one tattoo on the middle of his back and six piercings - two ear gauges, an industrial piercing on his left ear, two nipple piercings and a labret, which is a piercing below the lip and above the chin.
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BME: What's morally worse, piercing a human baby's ears, or piercing a fish's "labret"?
Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives 2004
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She has the body of a ballerina, a perky ponytail, a tiny rhinestone-studded labret below her lip, a demure silver flesh tunnel inside her nose and several piercings in her ears, most of them unadorned.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Indelible Artiste Nancy Ruhling 2011
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She has the body of a ballerina, a perky ponytail, a tiny rhinestone-studded labret below her lip, a demure silver flesh tunnel inside her nose and several piercings in her ears, most of them unadorned.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Indelible Artiste Nancy Ruhling 2011
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The members of the COBM believe their bodies are their temples -- and what temple is complete without a labret piercing?
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I threw myself into modifying my body through piercing and tattooing, not so slowly amassing nearly 20 tattoos (ranging from religious icons that called to me to pop culture symbols and characters that harkened back to my childhood) and more than a dozen piercings (nipples twice each, PA, labret, tongue, 1 1/4-inch lobes, rooks, tragi, etc.).
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But in the mean time, I'd better go figure out what a labret is.
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William used a 5mm labret with a light acrylic end and did the piercing freehand while his apprentice held the fish, which was taken out of the water, then put back straight after.
Boing Boing 2008
yarb commented on the word labret
A huge face with a labret stuck thru the left side of the upper and lower lips, stood sentinel.
- Louis Zukofsky, Thanks to the Dictionary
June 20, 2008