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Definition of Signalments
1. signalment [n] - See also: signalment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signalments
Literary usage of Signalments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Penology: The Defense of Society Against Crime by Henry Martyn Boies (1901)
"... Bureau in America—Importance and Value — Number of signalments in France,
1899 — A System —Use to Prevent Immigration of Criminals—Census Signalment. ..."
2. Signaletic Instructions Including the Theory and Practice of by Alphonse Bertillon (1896)
"As for the 90000 signalments of adults, they are first distributed according to
length of head into the three following primary divisions: ist div., ..."
3. Personal Identification: Methods for the Identification of Individuals by Harris Hawthorne Wilder, Bert Wentworth (1918)
"But even eleven hundred signalments are too many to be conveniently compared with
a given case, and the length of the left ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The average stature of man is thus about 65.25 inches. Bibliography.— Bertillon,
A., <Sur le Fonc- tionnement du Service des signalments An- ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"In March, 1871), Dr. Alphonse Bertillon, of Paris, invented and in 1885 published,
a plan for securing absolute identification. Three sorts of 'signalments' ..."
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