argent
Alternative forms
* (heraldry)
Noun
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The metal silver.
(tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
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* 1909 , Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
- The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent ".
(obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
* Tennyson
- The polished argent of her breast.
Adjective
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of silver or silver-coloured.
(tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
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Synonyms
* blanc, silver
Derived terms
{{der3, argentic
, argentiferous
, argentine
, argentite
, argentum nitricum}}
Related terms
* Ag (chemical symbol for silver)
See also
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Quotations
* 1667', Those '''argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost
* 1733', Or ask of yonder '''argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? — Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man
* 1817', she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her '''argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy — John Keats, ''Endymion
* 1817', Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine '''argent luxuries! — John Keats, ''Endymion
* 1818', Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair '''argent wings — John Keats, ''Hyperion
* 1819', At length burst in the '''argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, ''The Eve of St Agnes
* 1891',"A castle '''argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. — Thomas Hardy, ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles
* 1922', Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled '''argent , honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
* 1922', Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field '''argent displayed. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
* 1967', '''Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets
Anagrams
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