Noun: signet
| Singular | signet |
| Plural | signets |
Sample Sentences
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I had my fathers Signet in my Purse, / Which was the Modell of that Danish Seale: [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:]
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To carry pure death in an earring, a casket,
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A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket! [1844, Robert Browning, The Laboratory:]
Nouns inflected like signet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French signet (“small seal”), from Medieval Latin signētum, diminutive of Latin signum (“sign”). See: Latin Nouns '
signum'.