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signet

[sig-nit] / ˈsɪg nɪt /
NOUN
mark
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Mejuri’s globe-spanning operation must execute with precision before its customers can slip on the jeweler’s tennis bracelets and signet rings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

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

There was a circlet of whiter skin on his third finger where he used to wear the signet ring that Katie had given him when they married.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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 matter being thus settled such a letter was written to Idernes as I had suggested on the night before, and sealed with the Signet of signets.

From The Ancient Allan by Henry Rider Haggard

"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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