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What (who) is nosebag - definition


Nosebag      
·noun A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head.
nosebag      
¦ noun Brit. a bag containing fodder, hung from a horse's head.
Examples of use of nosebag
1. We are told, by the diligent self–publicist Salman Rushdie, that the veil "sucks". Columnist Allison Pearson says the veil is a "nosebag" and a "female–inhibiting shroud from the House of Taliban". Yasmin Alibhai–Brown claims that the veil is not mandated by the Qur‘an.