targe

How to use targe in a sentence

• He was in a blue cape, and had a targe, and his axe aloft on his shoulder.

  The story of Burnt Njal | Anonymous

• Like a targe of polished metal the round sea lay at his feet, and the shadows of the fishing-boats moved in the little bay.

  A House of Pomegranates | Oscar Wilde

• Like many Thracian heroes Rhesus has a dash of the Sun-god in him, the burning targe, the white horses and the splendour.

  The Rhesus of Euripedes | Euripedes

• The adarga was a kind of targe used by the light cavalry, and had its origin in Africa.

  The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume I (of 3) | Leonard Williams

• To the touch it was an ordinary coin; to the eye it had the form of a mighty targe of burnished gold.

  The Weird Orient | Henry Iliowizi