targe
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of targe
before 1000; Middle English < Old French < Old Norse targa round shield; cognate with Old High German zarga rim, ring; replacing Old English targe, targa < Old Norse
Example Sentences
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He ran as much as he has all season on a night when he had to, and he was as on targe with his passes, which was needed on so many third- and fourth-down plays.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2019
"It was steel and targe from the onset."
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
A carven targe, with golden shapes aglow, Hung o'er his back.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
Next, a knight with his flaming targe See the DENT-DE-LION so bold With his feathery crest at large, On a field of the cloth of gold.
From A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden by Crane, Walter
At once, in contest for that airy form, Grecians and Trojans on each other's breasts530 The bull-hide buckler batter'd and light targe.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
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