signet
Example Sentences
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Are you wearing a martini glass signet ring?
From Salon • May 1, 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
Archives show that those who lived in Brown Square included physician Joseph McKenzie; advocate John McLaurin; lord justice clerk Thomas Miller; Lady Agnew; and a writer to the signet, Isaac Grant.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2022
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
“How little faith you have in me,” said the Prince of Demons lazily, twirling the signet ring.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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