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signet

[sig-nit] / ˈsɪg nɪt /
NOUN
mark
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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

Attendees wore stickers with their chosen “Empyrean” rank and wrote their dream powers on a signet wish tree.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 8, 2023

He proudly wore the family crest on a signet ring, but he was also mindful that his father had been accused of collaboration with the Nazis and his mother was “a former American exotic dancer.”

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2022

In his immaculate and expensive black suit with gold signet ring and brightly polished black shoes, he looked like a scaled-down model of a multimillionaire businessman.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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

The excavations did not yield a large number of original gems of this class, but a great number of clay sealings from such signets were discovered.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

"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

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

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




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