| 单词 |
signalment |
| 释义 |
signalment rare.|ˈsɪgnəlmənt| [ad. F. signalement, f. signaler to mark out.] A description of a person wanted by the police; a distinguishing mark.
1778Ann. Reg. 196 A French signalment, or hue and cry, was received at..Bow Street..of a most horrid murder. 1804Bentham Mem. & Corr. Wks. 1843 X. 414 Were a signalment of this kind once established in the character of a mark of infamy is it not to be apprehended that the above-mentioned custom of self-marking would cease? 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vi. 399 The foiled police Renounced me. ‘Could they find a girl and child, No other signalment but girl and child?’ |

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