armring

noun

armring

noun

Etymology From arm + ring.

1

A ring worn on the arm.

  • They were worn by men rather than by women and pre-Viking repoussé-decorated gold foils from Sorte Muld, Bornholm, appear to show a man who is wearing armrings wielding a sword and a man with two rings on his upper arm.2011, Tony Abramson, New Perspectives:
  • Odin examined the arm-ring, then pushed it onto his arm, up high on his biceps.2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 42:

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