Indian sign

British

noun

a magic spell designed to place the victim in one's power or bring him bad luck

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Ms Ain said that experts are also looking to create a legal thesaurus in Indian sign language that would help the deaf lawyers and litigants.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2023

Villa won’t be too enamoured with that thought and already have something of an Indian sign over today’s hosts, having dumped them out of the League Cup semis.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2020

The symbol has been used by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains for millennia and is commonly assumed to be an Indian sign.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2014

An Indian sign over José Mourinho's Chelsea in Europe didn't damage his cause either.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2010

With this sign the Indian sign for female, see Fig.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

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