secret sign
Example Sentences
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There’s something appealing about a secret sign language being manufactured into cloth used for commerce in clothing or furnishings — an International Clandestine style.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022
The aardvark resurfaces as a similarly secret sign in the relationship between a young Republican congressman named Alexander Paine Wilson and a philanthropist named Greg Tampico.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2020
An Easter egg is a secret sign or clue or whatnot that may be embedded in a game, and Halliday has deliberately created an occasion for egg hunting.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2011
Following an old Indian custom, he made a secret sign.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Among the early Christians it was used as a secret sign by which they knew one another in the days of persecution.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James