单词	signet
释义	signetsig‧net /ˈsɪɡnɪt/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINsignet Origin: 1300-1400 Old French signe; ➔ SIGN1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS In the signet office, the last dated document to survive was issued on I I June. On the index finger of his left hand he wore a gold signet ring. On the next day, 10 June, Gloucester wrote to York under his own signet for military help. Schumacher fiddled energetically with his signet ring, and offered no further conversation beyond a snort of ridicule. She went into the hall and rested Johnny's signet ring on the little table there. Such letters are sealed with the cardinal's own signet ring. The signet rings were probably the prerogative of the rich, as they were often made of gold or silver. The dancer Fred Astaire was among those in modern times who have worn a signet ring on the right hand. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a signet ring (=a ring that has a letter or symbol cut into a flat surface) COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► ring · The dancer Fred Astaire was among those in modern times who have worn a signet ring on the right hand.· The signet rings were probably the prerogative of the rich, as they were often made of gold or silver.· On the index finger of his left hand he wore a gold signet ring.· She went into the hall and rested Johnny's signet ring on the little table there.· Schumacher fiddled energetically with his signet ring, and offered no further conversation beyond a snort of ridicule.· Such letters are sealed with the cardinal's own signet ring.· Johnny's signet ring was somewhere in the hall; there was no doubting it.· Glynn also had stolen from him a purse containing £22 and a gold signet ring. a metal object used for printing a small pattern in wax as an official seal1(2)
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