broad seal
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See also: broadseal
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]broad seal (plural broad seals)
- The public seal of a nation, especially the British Great Seal of the Realm; supreme authority.
- 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.3:
- Faith, if we were disposed, we might sin as safe as if we had the broad seal to warrant it; but that night's work will stick by me this forty weeks.