earflare
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editearflare (plural earflares)
- A kind of earspool (short cylindrical ear ornament) worn by high-status Maya.
- 2005, Lila Perl, The Ancient Maya, page 26 (image caption):
- A Maya figure is depicted with earflares, a type of ear ornament.
- 2007, Handbook of the Collections: Princeton University Art Museum[1], page 121:
- The earflares, with long central shafts, reflect his high status.
- 2009, Matthew G. Looper, To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization[2], page 64:
- Each of the lords is already dressed in jade earflares, Jester God crowns, collars, wristlets, knee bands, and feathered anklets studded with jade beads.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:earflare.
- 2005, Lila Perl, The Ancient Maya, page 26 (image caption):