argent

adj

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

1. Of silver or silver-coloured.

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

2. 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": […].”

name

1. A surname.

noun

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

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; anything that is white.

   “The polish'd argent of her breast.”

4. A moth of the genus Argyresthia.