argent
adjEtymology From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”).
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Of silver or silver-coloured.
- Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove?1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 49–50:
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
- ... when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain.1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:
- The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
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- In the chief (top) of the arms are three wheels argent symbolising railway locomotives and rolling stock; […] The crest consists of a demi-lion rampant gules (red) holding between its paws a wheel argent similar to those included in the arms.1957 February 23, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:
- Derived terms
- argentic, argentiferous, argentine, argentite, argentous, argentum nitricum
- Related terms
- Ag