signet
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The pair seem to have closely bonded while filming, and even have matching signet rings - although some have dismissed their closeness as a marketing stunt.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
Are you wearing a martini glass signet ring?
From Salon ● May 1, 2025
A signet ring cast in sterling silver, left, and 14K gold rings by Nicholas Berkofsky of Fell Knives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
The colorful intaglios — gems with incised carvings — likely fell out of signet rings worn by wealthy third-century bathers, and ended up trapped in the stone drains.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
I notice the strength in his arms and the signet ring gleaming on one long-fingered hand, carved with the symbol of the Greenbriar line.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Mr. Yang has a tattoo on his arm, drawn by a nonbinary Chinese tattoo artist, with ancient signets.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2020
The short exchange had many signets of Mr. Ryan’s nascent leadership style, which contrasts sharply with that of his predecessor, John A. Boehner.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2015
So far, they have found 1,500 objects: gold and silver jewelry, carved signets, artistic glassware and pottery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody began attending to the paraphernalia of a challenge, the usual sealing of the gages with signets and so on, and the fixing of the date.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Elms set bossy signets on the land and throng the hedgerows, their round tops full of sunshine; under them the hawthorns sparkle very white against the riot of the green.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpots
Packets are signeted, mutually sealed, Rucker claps on the Town-seal first, Freytag and Voltaire following with theirs.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
"And now, Sir Alexander, what say you?" asked the Sieur de Retz, turning to the King's guardian, who had been caressing the curls of his beard with his white and signeted hand.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
For raising and signeting the summonds of reduction in my Lord Abotshall's name, against the minister of Athelstanford, a dollar and a halfe.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
