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Arpent vs Argent - What's the difference?

arpent | argent |

As nouns the difference between arpent and argent

is that arpent is a unit of length, having various official measures while argent is the metal silver.

As an adjective argent is

of silver or silver-coloured.

arpent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A unit of length, having various official measures
  • A unit of area, having various official measures
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    argent

    English

    (wikipedia argent)

    Alternative forms

    * (heraldry)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The metal silver.
  • (tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 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

    (-)
  • of silver or silver-coloured.
  • (tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

    • Synonyms

    * blanc, silver

    Derived terms

    {{der3, argentic , argentiferous , argentine , argentite , argentum nitricum}}

    Related terms

    * Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

    See also

    *

    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

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