argent

Example Sentences

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There is cheese by the pound, from Wisconsin or France; meat cured in house; fish like the best of Russ & Daughters: herring, salmon belly salad, anchovies slippery and argent.

From Salon

I half-expect him to leave a trail of argent, fading light in his wake, like a lightning bug.

From The New Yorker

Lancelot, who did not care for gaudy things, wore a few heron’s hackles bound with silver thread, which suited the argent of his shield.

From Literature

My father is known for his argent hair.

From Salon

Modern heraldic writers would give the sentence as “Sable, on a bend or between two horses’ heads erased argent, three fleurs-de-lys of the first.”

From Project Gutenberg