finger mark

American  

Or fingermark

noun

1. a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.

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Other Word Forms

• finger-marked
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of finger mark

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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finger mark

I presume it is the only finger mark extant of any of the conspirators.

From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Henry Bascom Smith

There's glass knobs on all the doors as will show every finger mark, and will keep me busy wiping from dawn to dark.

From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner

She said that the person was trying to erase God's finger mark upon the human soul who would prevent anybody, man or woman, from following natural bent and ability in any avocation.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It was written in great agitation and almost illegible, and at the bottom of the paper there was a dirty smudge that might have been a tear stain or a finger mark.

From Fortitude by Sir Hugh Walpole

Where he presses, the finger mark remains, filling up sluggishly.

From Pardners by Rex Ellingwood Beach

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