argental

[ahr-jen-tl]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling silver.

Word History and Origins

Origin of argental¹

First recorded in 1810–20; argent- + -al ¹

Example Sentences

There is a cheese my friend Georgia brings to my house sometimes called Brebirousse d’argental.

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The author would have again tasted the discomforts of that abode if he had not had timely warning from his friend D’Argental, and taken refuge in Lorraine, and afterwards on the Rhine, while his book was torn to pieces and burned in Paris by the public executioner, as offensive to religion, good morals, and respect for authority.

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“I have a mortal aversion to prison,” he wrote to D’Argental.

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In a letter in verse which she addressed, many years later, to her faithful friend d'Argental, she declares that a divinity "furious and jealous" seated herself near her cradle and controlled her destiny from her earliest years.

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"I have not had twelve hours' health since I last saw you," she writes to d'Argental, during the latter's visit to England; while in other letters she complains of being always "insupportably fatigued," and of being "in despair in regard to her health."

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