1993, Mohsen Saeidi Madani, Impact of Hindu Culture on Muslims, M D Publications Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 146:
On the first wedding night of the marriage ceremony, the husband removes the big nosering of the bride, which is the symbolic representation of the girl being a virgin till that moment.
2002, Esther David, Book of Esther, Viking, →ISBN, page 369:
[…] My mother and grandmother wore nine-yard saris, with heavy anklets, armlets, waist belts and enormous noserings, but they observed all the Jewish rituals.'
2007, Kristen Tsetsi, Homefront, Penxhere Press, →ISBN, page 225:
A woman with dyed black hair and a greenstone nosering returns to a story she must have almost finished before I came in.