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plural hallmarks
A distinguishing characteristic. quotations examples
Arsene Wenger's side showed little of the style and fluidity that is their hallmark but this was about digging deep and getting the job done, qualities they demonstrated and that will serve them well as the season reaches its climax.
2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Everton”, in BBC
An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals. quotations examples
It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.
2007, John Zerzan John, Silence
third-person singular simple present hallmarks, present participle hallmarking, simple past and past participle hallmarked
To provide or stamp with a hallmark. quotations examples
The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Ayrsham Mystery