Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which indicates approaching death.
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Examples
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She clad herself in mourning robes and bewailed her lost husband, but yet she was not entirely satisfied, for she still wore the broken half of the engraved ring on the chain round her neck, and still the promised death-token had not come.
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The death-token had not been sent, and she sorely mistrusted the Baron
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"He has told us that it is the death-token of Voodoo."
Bat Wing Sax Rohmer 1921
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He hears the hoof-thunder; he scents the death-token.
A West-Country Lover 1917
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I sent the death-token to Saarlouis by post to the young widow.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869
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