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argent

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ar·gent  (ärjnt)
n.
1. Heraldry The metal silver, represented by the color white.
2. Archaic Silver or something resembling it.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin argentum, silver; see arg- in Indo-European roots.]
argent [ˈɑːdʒənt]
n
a.  (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) an archaic or poetic word for silver
b.  (as adjective; often postpositive, esp in heraldry) a bend argent
[from Old French, from Latin]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.argent - a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance
tincture - a substances that colors metals
Adj.1.argent - of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"
silverish, silvery, silver
achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"
Translations
argent (obs, poet, Her)
n → Silber nt
adj → silbern


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John Barleycorn sends his White Logic, the argent messenger of truth beyond truth, the antithesis of life, cruel and bleak as interstellar space, pulseless and frozen as absolute zero, dazzling with the frost of irrefragable logic and unforgettable fact.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
After 1802, the chevalier sealed his letters with a very old seal, ill-engraved to be sure, by which the Casterans, the d'Esgrignons, the Troisvilles were enabled to see that he bore: Party of France, two cottises gemelled gules, and gules, five mascles or, placed end to end; on a chief sable, a cross argent.
An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context
"A castle argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly.
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