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insignia(dictionary)
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insignia (iou)



insignia noun. M17.
[Latin, pl. of insigne mark, sign, badge of office, use as noun of neut. of insignis distinguished (as by a mark), formed as IN-2 + signum sign: see -IA2. Cf. ENSIGN noun.]
pl. Badges or distinguishing marks (of office, honour, etc.); emblems (of a nation, person, etc.). M17.
J. G. Ballard The squadron insignia were still legible.
sing. (Pl. -ias.) A badge or distinguishing mark (of office, honour, etc.); an emblem (of a nation, person, etc.). L18.
Times I saw not a single racer..bearing an insignia that seemed out of place.
Usu. as pl. Marks or tokens indicative of something. L18.
P. Roth His deeply furrowed face bore all the insignia of his lifelong exertion.