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sigillaria
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sigillaria, n. pl. [L., from sigillum a seal. See Sigil.].
Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia. [1913 Webster]
sigillaria, n. [NL., fem sing. fr. L. sigillum a seal.].
A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface. [1913 Webster]
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