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Hall-mark

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Hall´-mark`    (hạl´märk`)
n.1.The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity.
2.A distinguishing characteristic or characteristics; as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.


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It was the hall-mark of his aristocratic birth, the natural outcropping of many generations of fine breeding, an hereditary instinct of graciousness which a lifetime of uncouth and savage training and environment could not eradicate.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
That I am marked with the hall-mark of gentlehood there is no discussion .
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