2Wearing a ring, as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority.
‘they wore suits with the sleeves pulled back to show ringed fingers’
- ‘He ran a heavily ringed right hand through his crimson hair.’
- ‘Her opponent had a ringed lip.’
- ‘The ringed man quickly looked behind him to see if anyone had heard.’
- ‘Her ringed nostril flared.’
- ‘As he held out each one, he tapped it with his ringed fingers.’
- ‘They wore new suits, with the sleeves pulled back to show ringed fingers and white shirt cuffs.’
- ‘We were afraid of the soundless swing of our father's ringed fist.’
- ‘How shall we ever admire our civic leaders if we cannot look up to them, to see a white silk glove raised in blessing, a ringed-hand greeting?’
- ‘He thanks everyone profusely and leaves for his kingdom, where his nose-ringed princess waits for him.’
- ‘He was a ringed man—that is, he wore on his head the black ring, made of a species of gum polished with fat and worked up in the hair.’
- 2.1British Ornithology (of a bird) having an aluminium strip secured around a leg as a means of identification.
- ‘ringed birds have been recovered in winter’