Swart
1 Americannoun
adjective
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
Example Sentences
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His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear.
From Literature
As they at last paused, exhausted and laughing over their own exertions, the swart blacksmith stood forth in their midst.
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Some of the salesmen stood by their laden carts ready, on the approach of a likely customer, to thrust a hand into the mass of swart animalism and extract a protesting squeaker.
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Nature, o'er day and night alternate dreaming, Brings forth a swart child now, and now a fair: On thee attends, O Queen in beauty beaming, A better Nature, with a rule how rare!
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Hereupon �geas was wroth, and ordered the apostle to be thrust into a swart prison.
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