Noun: argent
| Singular | argent |
| Plural | argents |
Sample Sentences
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The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent". [1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry:]
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The polish'd argent of her breast. [1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like argent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”). See: Middle English Nouns '
argent', Latin Nouns '
argentum'.