signalment

From signal +‎ -ment.

signalment (countable and uncountable, plural signalments)

1. The act of signalling, or of signalizing.
2. A description based on specific traits.
   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sixth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Could they find a girl and child,
     No other signalment but girl and child?
     No data shown but noticeable eyes
     And hair in masses, low upon the brow,
     As if it were an iron crown and pressed?

• alignments, lamentings

Borrowed from French signalement, without further adaptation in the direction of native vocabulary.

• IPA^(key): /siɡ.nalˈment/
• Rhymes: -ent
• Hyphenation: sig‧nal‧ment

signalment n (plural signalmente)

1. dated form of semnalment (“identifying characteristic”)

• “signalment”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1990), “semnalmént”, in Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 10, part 3, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, →ISBN, page 701