Citations:earflare

Noun: "a kind of earspool (short cylindrical ear ornament) worn by high-status Maya"

 * 1992, Peter Canby, The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya, page 53:
 * His face was covered with a mask of jade, white shell, and obsidian. He wore a cape, earflares, and rings. A royal belt of jade with flint pendants lay on top of the sarcophagus.
 * 2003, Matthew G. Looper, Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship and Quirigua, page 130:
 * The lower jaw of each serpent is replaced by an assemblage composed of an irregular shape with two spots, from which are suspended a mat, two beads, and an earflare (out of which emerge three additional earflares), followed by textile strips.
 * 2005, Lila Perl, The Ancient Maya, page 26 (image caption):
 * A Maya figure is depicted with earflares, a type of ear ornament.
 * 2007, Handbook of the Collections: Princeton University Art Museum, page 121:
 * The earflares, with long central shafts, reflect his high status.
 * 2009, Matthew G. Looper, To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization, page 64:
 * Each of the lords is already dressed in jade earflares, Jester God crowns, collars, wristlets, knee bands, and feathered anklets studded with jade beads.
 * 2020, Cameron L. McNeil, "Favored Plants of the Maya", in The Maya World (ed. Scott Hutson), page 194:
 * Rulers are at times depicted with flowers in their headdresses (Reents-Budet 1994: 348, Figure 76), and jade earflares are often in the form of flowers connecting them to concepts of fertility.