argent

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Old French argent (“silver”), from Latin argentum (“white money, silver”)

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  • (RP) IPA: /ˈɑːdʒɛnt/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈɑɹdʒɛnt/
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[edit] Noun

argent (uncountable)

  1. The metal silver.
  2. (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
    argent colour:    
    • 1909, The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent". — Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry

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silver or metal tincture

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argent

  1. of silver or silver-coloured.
  2. (heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
    • 1889, ...when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain. — Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

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of silver or silver coloured
of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms

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  • Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

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[edit] 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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[edit] Noun

argent m. (oblique plural argents, nominative singular argents, nominative plural argent)

  1. silver (metal)

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argent m. (uncountable)

  1. silver

[edit] French

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin argentum.

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[edit] Noun

argent m. (plural argents)

  1. money
  2. silver
  3. argent (white in heraldry)

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argent m. (plural argentz or argents)

  1. silver (metal)
  2. silver (color)

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