Today's Word "imprimatur"
Mark of approval or distinction
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imprimatur \im-prih-MAH-tur; -MAY-\ (noun) - 1 : Official license or approval to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; especially, such a license issued by the Roman Catholic episcopal authority. 2 : Approval; sanction. 3 : A mark of approval or distinction.
"After realizing that Frenchman and Arab alike were mesmerized by the power of official stamps, the engineers fabricated their own rubber imprimatur..." -- Rick Atkinson, 'An Army at Dawn'
Imprimatur is from New Latin imprimatur, "let it be printed," from imprimere, "to imprint," from Latin, from in- + premere, "to press."
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