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Engagement ring

noun

A ring given and worn as a sign of betrothal.

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"Engagement ring" Quotes from Famous Books

... gave it to her. It's our engagement ring. Bless her heart—she's promised me to wear it as soon ...

— The Old Flute-Player - A Romance of To-day • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... to light the citizens in the work of rescue, cast a little gleam in through the debris across her two hands, which lay clasped together at her side. One of her fingers, she saw, was gone; it was the finger which held Dick's little engagement ring. The red beam lay across her forehead, and drops dripped from it upon her eyes. Her feet, still tangled in the gearing which had tripped her, were buried beneath a pile ...

— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... and no more fuss about bills, you know. Do you know, Belle, that creature is just wild about me: he'd like to ransack all the jewellers' shops in New York for me. He's going up to-morrow, just to choose the engagement ring. He says he can't trust to an order; that he must go and ...

— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... I gave Marjorie for an engagement ring. Give it me, you hound!—unless you wish me to do you violence ...

— The Beetle - A Mystery • Richard Marsh

... search expedition to the Florida West Coast, in company with a group of friends of the Corrugated Trust and with his friend's aunt, on which trip Torchy wins the aunt's permission to place an engagement ring ...

— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman