argent

plural argents · alternative arg. · alternative a.

1. archaiccountableuncountableThe metal silver.
2. countableuncountablegovernmentThe white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

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

   1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry

3. archaiccountablepoeticuncountableWhiteness; anything that is white.

   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

4. countableuncountableA moth of the genus Argyresthia.

alternative arg. · alternative a.

1. not comparableOf 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

2. not comparablegovernmentOf 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

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   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

   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 28, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81

1. A surname.