seal ring

American  

noun

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

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seal ring British  

noun

1. another term for signet ring

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Etymology

Origin of seal ring

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

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seal ring

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

Both wore a seal ring on the little finger of the left hand, and a watch chain of early Victorian design.

From The Heart of a Woman by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

And she could not help glancing curiously at his hand, to which a seal ring of sapphire engraved with his arms gave such a foreign look....

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

Cecilia, meanwhile, had promptly climbed upon his knee, and now, laying hold of one of the ungloved hands, she began twisting a large seal ring which presented itself to her mind as a pleasing novelty.

From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller