seal ring
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of seal ring
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
A character in the Lord Mayor’s Show, in 1664, is described as “habited like a grave citizen—gold girdle, and gloves hung thereon, rings on his fingers, and a seal ring on his thumb.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
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