watch-seal

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Noun

watch-seal (plural watch-seals)

  1. (historical, obsolete) A small seal or decorative trinket attached to a watchchain.
    Synonym: onion (obsolete)
    • 1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History, page 214:
      He does not 'engrave Truth on his watch-seal; 'no, but he stands by truth, speaks by it, works and lives by it.
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