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The Pillars of the Earth
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7 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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7 [fashion] words
jerkin
shift
brocade
plait
tonsure
ermine
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signet
notes:
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not
cygnet!!)
synonyms:
sigil, ~bulla
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Definition:
a ring with a seal used to leave an impression on sealing wax
photo: by Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carnelian_intaglio_Prolemaic_queen_CdM_Paris.jpg
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Uses:
the staff officer with the
signet
ring, and Zherkov, uneasily glancing at them all,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
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He twisted a
signet
ring on his right hand and waited for me to show him I was listening.
Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.209 (2012)
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I had my father's
signet
in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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“A
signet
, with his initials.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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