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button seal

button seal noun: a small circular seal (imprinting device) of a type used in Ancient Egypt and the Near East.

Noun

button seal (plural button seals)

  1. A small circular seal (imprinting device) of a type used in Ancient Egypt and the Near East.
    • Crete now takes its proper place as a half-way house between Egypt and the AEgean. The seals of the period show on them primitive pictographs that are certainly derived from the pictographs of the so-called button seals of Egypt.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 50

Forms of button seal

pluralbutton seals

Questions about button seal

What does button seal mean?
Button seal means a small circular seal (imprinting device) of a type used in Ancient Egypt and the Near East.
What part of speech is button seal?
Button seal is a noun.
What is the plural of button seal?
The plural of button seal is button seals.

Words near button seal in the dictionary

  1. button punches
  2. button pusher
  3. button quail
  4. button quails
  5. button scurvy
  6. button seal
  7. button snakeroot
  8. button spider
  9. button spiders
  10. button squash
  11. button stick

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