signet
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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
Sarah's medical cause of death was recorded as "metastatic signet ring adenocarcinoma of the appendix".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Are you wearing a martini glass signet ring?
From Salon ● May 1, 2025
This demi signet is a petite counterpart to the J. Hannah classic signet and designed to be worn on the pinky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
Her small right hand with the signet ring on the middle finger was stuck out too, but it made no move toward Aron’s hand.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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
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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
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Trade’s fickle signets coined From Mammon’s molten dust, With reverence conjoined, Proclaim “In God we trust.”
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
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
"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
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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