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argent

noun
/ˈɑːdʒənt/UK/ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/US

Etymology

From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”).

  1. derived from argentum
  2. derived from argent
  3. inherited from argent

Definitions

  1. The metal silver.

  2. The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

    • The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

  3. Whiteness

    Whiteness; anything that is white.

    • The polish'd argent of her breast.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A moth of the genus Argyresthia.

    2. Of silver or silver-coloured.

      • Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove?

    3. 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.
      • 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": […].

    4. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

argentic, argentiferous, argentine, argentite, argentous, argentum nitricum

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at argent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at argent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at argent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA