paraph

Plural: paraphs

Noun

• A distinctive flourish added to a signature or mark.
• a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery)
• A flourish made after or below one's signature, originally to prevent forgery.
• A mark used by medieval rubricators to indicate textual division.

Verb

• To add a paraph to; to sign, especially with one's initials.

Examples

• His unique Scrabble strategy was a paraph on the game’s traditional rules.