seal ring

a finger ring bearing an incised design for embossing a wax seal.

Origin of seal ring

First recorded in 1600–10

This seal-ring was taken later to Rome, where Pliny relates that he saw and handled it.

Finger-Ring Lore |William Jones
Heres a seal-ring, and I have sent for a guarded gown and a damask cassock.

The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. |Thomas Dekker
The annexed cuts represent a gold signet-ring, inscribed Heva, and a seal-ring, both of the Merovingian period.

Finger-Ring Lore |William Jones
She noticed for the first time a seal-ring in a setting of twisted silver on the hand he had kept on hers.

The Reef |Edith Wharton

And as for myself, I am as close as an emerald in a seal-ring.'

The Young Duke |Benjamin Disraeli

seal ring

another term for signet ring