ARGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does argent mean? 

• ARGENT (noun)
  The noun ARGENT has 1 sense:

1. a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance

  Familiarity information: ARGENT used as a noun is very rare.

• ARGENT (adjective)
  The adjective ARGENT has 1 sense:

1. of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver

  Familiarity information: ARGENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("argent" is a kind of...):

tincture (a substance that colors or dyes)

Derivation:

argent (of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver)

• ARGENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver

Synonyms:

argent; silver; silverish; silvery

Context example:

silvery hair

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

Derivation:

argent (a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance)

 Context examples 

Argent, a bend vert between cotises dancette gules.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gold-embroidered belt of knighthood encircled his loins, with his arms, five roses gules on a field argent, cunningly worked upon the clasp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Argent and azure, a barry wavy of six.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Over the door the travellers could discern the escutcheon of the Montacutes, a roebuck gules on a field argent, flanked on either side by smaller shields which bore the red roses of the veteran constable.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)