signet

Example Sentences

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Are you wearing a martini glass signet ring?

From Salon • May 1, 2025

“I try to make my pieces smooth and comfortable,” he said, holding a signet ring cast in sterling silver that he etched with a Japanese crest of a lotus flower.

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

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 buttoned up his coat jauntily and Francie saw that he wore their father’s signet ring.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith