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seal ring

American  

noun

  1. a finger ring bearing an incised design for embossing a wax seal.


seal ring British  

noun

  1. another term for signet ring

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of seal ring

First recorded in 1600–10

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Also stolen was a seal ring dating to Late Bronze Age Mycenaean times.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2012

Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently of stone, and an oval seal ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

She picked up a gold seal ring, which, however, had no crest or monogram cut on it,—and a bronze paper cutter.

From Patty's Success by Wells, Carolyn

His beastly clothes, and the bare shaved welt around the back of his neck, and that awful seal ring!

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

It was fully an hour later, when the house was quiet for the night, that Judith found Roger nursing a slight but smarting cut on his cheek, where Faxon's seal ring had grazed it.

From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent

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