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cramp ring en · NOUN
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(historical) A ring worn to supposedly prevent cramp, epilepsy and associated diseases, especially one specifically blessed by an English monarch before the Reformation.
"Now you may have the traditional cramp-rings," Anne said, in that same high-pitched, haughty voice.
2011, Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, page 357:The blessing of cramp-rings was abandoned immediately and without comment upon the accession of Elizabeth I.
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 193:
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