Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Silver as conventionally represented in heraldry by the color white.
- noun Archaic The metal silver.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Silver, or something resembling it; formerly, in a more general sense, money.
- noun In heraldry, the metal silver: represented conventionally in uncolored drawing or engraving by a plain white surface.
- noun Often abbreviated to
a ., ar., or arg. - Made of silver; resembling silver; bright like silver; silvery-white.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made of silver; of a silvery color; white; shining.
- noun Archaic Silver, or money.
- noun (Fig. & Poet.) Whiteness; anything that is white.
- noun (Her.) The white color in coats of arms, intended to represent silver, or, figuratively, purity, innocence, beauty, or gentleness; -- represented in engraving by a plain white surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The metal
silver . - noun heraldry The white or silver
tincture on acoat of arms . - adjective of
silver or silver-coloured. - adjective heraldry : of white or silver
tincture on a coat of arms.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance
- adjective of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They are a nocturne in argent and gold, and they burn with the ferocity of dying (which is to say, the luminosity of what’s living hardest).
Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Dotys 'Nocturne in Black and Gold' 2003
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Here it is, such as you may see it still at Guerande: Gules, a hand proper gonfaloned ermine, with a sword argent in pale, and the terrible motto, FAC.
Beatrix 1839
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Here it is, such as you may see it still at Guerande: Gules, a hand proper gonfaloned ermine, with a sword argent in pale, and the terrible motto, FAC.
Beatrix Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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D&D Holdings, Coq D'argent's holding company, didn't return calls for comment.
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She said his was a strange name for one of the Light Elves, for if "argent" meant "silver" in the language of the Silvanesti, it meant "night's son" in the speech of the Kagonesti.
Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000
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"Because I learned at the Exposition that the word 'argent' means money in every language in Europe; and this word they constantly used in their conversation."
File No. 113 ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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The class includes a meal and glass of wine.www. pressoir-argent.com
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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The class includes a meal and glass of wine.www. pressoir-argent.com
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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The class includes a meal and glass of wine.www. pressoir-argent.com
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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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.
Chapter 35 2010
widdershins commented on the word argent
Three chevrons gules on a field argent.
January 3, 2008