Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Articles formed of silver; silver plate.
- noun Silvery appearance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Silver plate or vessels.
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- noun obsolete
Silver plate orvessels .
Etymologies
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French argenterie, from argent silver, Latin argentum.
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Examples
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And so, in its confused argentry and ghostliness, its crystallization and diaphinity, his music resembles at times nothing so much as the precious remains and specimens of an extinct planet; things transfixed in cold eternal night, icy and phosphorescent of hue.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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