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Date: Thu Aug 6 00:08:27 EDT 1998
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--labret
labret (LAY-brit) noun
An ornament inserted into a perforation in the lip.
[Latin labrum, lip. + -ET.]
What fools these mortals be.
Ten years on and this is almost a common thing to see these insertions into perforations.
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