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How to use argent in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun, adjective

Argent means the metal silver. Example: “The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.”

Examples of argent by meaning

nounThe 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

adjectiveOf white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

  • The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St.1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480

More sentences with argent

  • The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.From the entry arm
  • The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.From the entry quarterly
  • Crest. - On a heart the Holy Dove displayed, argent, radiated or.2023 May 1, W. Sedgwick Saunders, A Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Topographical Drawings and Prints, Coins, Gems, Autographs…. From the entry trundle
  • Argent pappellony Vert, chief Sable, a Skull proper, a Bugle and Horseshoe Or.2023 August 13, House Galca Organization in Glüm, World Anvil. From the entry pappellony
  • Crest — Rising from the top of a lighthouse argent irradiated or a martlet azure.2020 April 20, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 2780. From the entry irradiated
  • Azure, an amphiptere or, rising between two mountains argent, are the arms of Camoens, the Portuguese poet.1969, John Vinycomb, Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN. From the entry amphiptere
  • The original escutcheon of the Norman family was a bendy of ten, argent and gules.1927, Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, page 436. From the entry bendy
  • Argent, a shakefork sable between three fleurs-de-lis azure, one in chief and two in flank.1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 403. From the entry shakefork
  • Arms : Azure, a chevron ermine between three cross - crosslets fitchy argent.1902, Lincoln's Inn (London, England), The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, page 458. From the entry close
  • Arms — Per pale argent and azure, on the first three pallets sable, all within a bordure of the last.2020, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 4618. From the entry cinqueda
  • Crest — A cubit arm erect, vested azure, cuffed argent, holding in the hand a Cinqueda sword, both proper.2020, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 4618. From the entry cinqueda
  • Runolfr Audsson bears: Per chevron sable and gules, papellony argent, in chief a wolf courant to sinister argent.2014 May 23, Papellony, in Mistholme. From the entry papellony
  • Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India. From the entry urinant
  • Argent a fess counterembattled between three escallops sable, impaling Gules within a border engrailed or a lion passant argent, late 14th-c.1996, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, page 29. From the entry counterembattled
  • This shield argent with three lions sinople (green) has remained the coat of arms of the House of Lannoy.1984, Lucile Kathryn Delano, Charles De Lannoy, Victor of Pavia, →ISBN. From the entry sinople
  • Argent, seme of fountains on a chief azure a Lorraine cross and an oak leaf of the first.1953, United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History, The Army Lineage Book, page 828. From the entry fountain
  • It was argent a tau cross gules.1940, Terence White, The Ill-Made Knight, page 186. From the entry vergescu
  • Argent, three roebucks passant regardant gules, attired and unguled sable.1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate…. From the entry unguled
  • Arms : Azure, a saltorel, or, between three stars, argent.1905, Joseph Winfred Spenceley, A Descriptive Checklist of the Etched & Engraved Book-plates, page 9. From the entry saltorel
  • His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.1904, The Genealogical Magazine, page 446. From the entry bendy
  • Crest : An eagle close argent, ducally gorged.1902, Lincoln's Inn (London, England), The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, page 458. From the entry close
  • Bellincioni : Gules, a goat clymant argent.1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 128. From the entry clymant
  • On a wreath of the colors argent and tenné four lightning flashes barbed radiate pilewise of the first, a Roman helm or garnished gules.2005, Rebecca R. Raines, Signal Corps, Department of the Army, page 117. From the entry radiate
  • 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, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81. From the entry rampant
  • It is crossed by a fesse argent (silver band) for the roads, and two pairs of narrow barrulets argent for the railways.1957 February, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81. From the entry barrulet
  • Crest, a stag regardant levant argent.1932, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset. From the entry levant
  • For that overvivid green glow flouted at the argent, pure white glimmer of the “candles of the angels” and drove them from the heavens.1911, The Peabody Press, The Smart Set 1911-12: Volume 35, Issue 4, page 75. From the entry overvivid
  • Crest - Upon a crest coronet or, charged with a cross bourdonnée azure, a pelican argent, holding in the bill a nail or.1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1282. From the entry bourdonnée
  • Argent, fretty gules, a chief azure.1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 406. From the entry entwisted
  • Party of six argent and sable, on a fesse gules, between three lions of England, two broches (or embroidery needles) saltirewise between as many trundles or.2023 May 1, W. Sedgwick Saunders, A Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Topographical Drawings and Prints, Coins, Gems, Autographs…. From the entry trundle
  • Vert, a cross treflée (or flory) argent between four open crowns or, in a canton of the second the Blessed Virgin holding the Holy Child proper. (Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry.1927, Notes and Queries, page 82. From the entry treflée
  • The Royal arms as above, differenced with a label of three points argent, over all, barry of ten or and sable a bend treflée vert (Saxony).1921, Edward Alfred Webb, The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew's the Great: West…. From the entry treflée
  • Cromwell of Tattershall : party per chief, gules and argent, a bend azure; which might also be blazoned as gules, a chief argent, and a bend azure (fig. 16).1903, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM, page 694. From the entry per chief
  • Upon a shield à bouche, scalloped at the base , are the arms : Azure two pallets argent, on a chief a lion's jamb erased in fesse azure, for ARRIGHI.1904, Albert Van de Put, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV. Century: A Contribution to Its History and Chronology Based Upon Armorial…. From the entry à bouche

Meaning of argent

  1. noun The metal silver.
  2. noun The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  3. noun Whiteness; anything that is white.

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Questions about argent in a sentence

How do you use argent in a sentence?
Argent is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.”
What is a short sentence with argent?
“Argent, fretty gules, a chief azure.”
What does argent mean?
Argent means the metal silver.

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