a piece of bone, shell, etc, inserted into the lip as an ornament by certain peoples
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la•bret
(lā′bret),USA pronunciation n.
- Anthropologyan ornament worn in a pierced hole in the lip.
- Latin labr(um) lip + -et
- 1855–60
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