swart
1 Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- swartness noun
Etymology
Origin of swart
before 900; Middle English; Old English sweart black, dark; cognate with German schwarz, Old Norse svartr, Gothic swarts; akin to Latin sordēs filth
Vocabulary lists containing swart
Example Sentences
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Two thousand miles due south of the Yangtze lie the Dutch East Indies, whence Royal Dutch-Shell and its swart, dynamic head, Sir Henri Deterding, began their march around the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
They paid little attention to their swart, stocky son, left him in the haphazard hands of tutors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foodhandlers, working under arc lights, stopped to stare and pound their frozen hands together, as out of the car emerged a small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
To William Wyler, 42, short, swart director who graduated from bang-bang Westerns to a closer walk with art.
From Time Magazine Archive
His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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