broad seal
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of broad seal
First recorded in 1530–40
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They shone, they walked like a people that carried the broad seal of heaven about them.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
She folded them, sealed one with the broad seal, and then locked them up in her box till wanted.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 3 of 3) A Novel by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
This seal was much like the broad seal of England, having on the one side the image of a man on horseback in complete harness fighting with a dragon.
From Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt
Sandys, despairing of success from the king, appealed to Parliament in the name of the "Adventurers and Planters in Virginia," and "the Virginia patent was taken out again under the broad seal of England."
From England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
We here are loyal to the king, and too much his friends to believe that he would wrong himself by controverting the charter which bears the broad seal affixed by his own royal father.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Julian Hawthorne
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