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Official stamp affixed by guilds or assay offices to gold and silver objects.

Usage of hall-mark in English

Their proceedings all bore the hall-mark of natural refinement and good taste. 
 The Purse 

If it bears the hall-mark of hoary antiquity, so much the better. 
 The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance 

Inconsistency is the hall-mark of real in distinction from unreal life. 
 The Mermaid: A Love Tale 

All other men were the same, stamped with a similar hall-mark. 
 Flames 

This is the hall-mark of Shakespeare, and perhaps of him alone. 
 Some Diversions of a Man of Letters 

This mele comes to us stamped with the hall-mark of antiquity. 
 Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula 

Don't tell me you haven't caught onto the hall-mark of the Red Desert. 
 The Taming of Red Butte Western 

After all, is not pure pathos the hall-mark of great comedy? 
 Merton of the Movies 

The sleeping dogs, heaving gently in fawn-coloured beatitude, set upon it the best hall-mark. 
 Flames 

That I am marked with the hall-mark of gentlehood there is no discussion . 
 The Red One 

Our laboratories are perhaps the distinguishing hall-mark of our civilization. 
 Modern Religious Cults and Movements 

Genuine manhood was the only hall-mark allowed as a standard. 
 Policing the Plains / Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous N... 

The hall-mark of so-called "vulgar people" is unrestricted display of uncontrolled emotions. 
 Etiquette 

These are among the attributes of the exalted, and constitute the hall-mark of the spiritually-minded. 
 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh 

Nothing in Athens was done without a committee, that ultimate hall-mark of the democratic method. 
 Childhood's End 

There is the hall-mark of the great genius: Unity. 
 Massimilla Doni 

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