Well, the earring tells us he was bohemian," she explained. "An earring on a man meant the same then as it does now-that the wearer was a little more fashionably racy than the average person. Drake and Raleigh were both painted with earrings. It was their way of announcing that they were of an adventurous disposition.
( Bill Bryson )
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