paraphe

It was therefore not improper that the man of the _paraphe_ -- and a wondrous _paraphe_ his signature had, flourishing from edge to edge of a foolscap page, in woolly and laborious curves -- should, when called upon next morning, treat his best client to his best office manners.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

PARAPHER, marquer de son paraphe, signature abrégée.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

[87] Many of these names are signed with a _rubrica_ or flourish, which, like the French _paraphe_, was customary as a protection against forgery.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906