"labretifery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1891 Prof. Frederick Starr, \"Dress and Adornment,\" Popular Science, Vol. 39, No. 30 (August 1891), Bonnier Corporation, p490",
          "text": "In Africa labretifery is quite common, and varies from tribe to tribe."
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          "text": "They include labretifery, tattooing the chin of adult women, certain uses of masks, a certain style of conventionalizing objects, the use of conventional signs as hieroglyphics, [...] and of artistic representations connected with their common religious or mythological ideas.",
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          "ref": "1995 Allen P. McCartney, Hunting the largest animals: native whaling in the western Arctic and subarctic, Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta, p9",
          "text": "Labretifery occurred over a wide distribution from the Kuriles to southern British Columbia in the late prehistoric period."
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        "the practice of wearing labrets"
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