English citations of toering

Noun: "alternative form of toe ring"

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  • 1922 — James Joyce, Ulysses:
    On her feet are jewelled toerings. Her ankles are linked by a slender fetterchain.
  • 1999 — Yojana Sharma, The Buffalo Thief, Doubleday (1999), →ISBN, page 120:
    [] little put out by Madhu's appearance, decked all over with gold from her clinking bangles to her toering.
  • 2002 — Esther David, Book of Esther, Viking (2002), →ISBN, page 61:
    Tamara stood exactly as her mother had taught her not to — legs spread out and her feet with their long toes and silver toerings turned outwards.
  • 2002 — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, Vintage (2003), →ISBN, pages 230-231:
    He'd bought me some new shoes, these nice sexy platform-soled sandals, like, an he wanted me to do me feet up, polish an toerings an all that stuff, []
  • 2005 — Ira Pande, Diddi: My Mother's Voice, Penguin (2005), →ISBN, page 120:
    Her dainty feet were covered with toerings and tinkling anklets while glass bangles covered her arms.
  • 2008 — Devdutt Pattanaik, The Book of Ram, Penguin Books (2008), →ISBN, page 57:
    [] bangles, bracelets and armlets for the arms, rings for the hands; anklets with tiny bells for the legs, toerings for the feet; []
  • 2010 — Sudhir Thapliyal, Mansuri, Macabre, westland ltd (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    On my feet were golden anklets and diamond toerings made of huge diamonds.