Geneva cross
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Geneva cross
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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The Geneva cross belongs to Switzerland but is not really a watermark, as it is impressed in the paper after the stamps are printed.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
On one end was painted the Geneva cross.
From The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
When the priming coat had thoroughly dried on each panel, the painter carefully stencilled a black Geneva cross over the priming coat with lampblack in oil.
From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner
Meanwhile men with the white brassard and the red Geneva cross were busy out in the open, lending succor to the Russian wounded.
From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
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