Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A detailed description of a person's appearance, as for police files.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A making known by signs or indications; specifically, a description by external marks or characteristics for identification.
- n. The act of signaling.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of signalling, or of signalizing.
- n. Description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.
Etymologies
- signal + -ment (Wiktionary)
- French signalement, from signaler, to mark out, from signal, signal; see signal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There he stood calling hastily for a drink; and her heart more than her eyes took in his, to her, consecrated signalment -- the riding-boots, short clothes, blue coat, cocked hat, ruffles.”
“His passport had only been issued at the British Legation in Stockholm, and his description tallied exactly with the signalment issued by Scotland”
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