swart

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They were coarse and swart, and the long black locks were matted and woolly.

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  1. adjective Archaic Swarthy.

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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. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • The hobbits were left with the Isengarders: a grim dark band, four score at least of large, swart, slant-eyed Orcs with great bows and short broad-bladed swords. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • She grabbed the swart oriental's most vulnerable part--his finger nails--such of them as were still intact--and pulled hard Sen Gat screamed. —  017 - The Thousand Headed Man
  • The fierce, swart, broad-shouldered dwarfs with the almond eyes and woven pigtails gazed with glee and admiration on the tall and comely warrior who had swept them before his sword-edge; and when he spoke of the rich markets and goodly houses and fruitful land of Sarras their eyes glistened, and they swore by fire and water and the four winds to avenge his wrongs Little need is there to linger in telling of a swift matter. —  A Child's Book of Saints
  • Long yellow curls on a swart-faced black-eyed Russian." —  Mary Rose of Mifflin
 

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  1. Middle English swarte, from Old English sweart.

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  1. Also improperly swarth; from Middle English swart, swarte, from Anglo-Saxon sweart = Old Saxon OFries. swart = Middle Dutch swart, Dutch zwart = Middle Low German Low German swart = Old High German Middle High German swarz, German schwarz = Icelandic svartr = Swedish svart = Danish sort = Gothic (Moesogothic) swarts, black; akin to L. sordere, be dirty, sordidus, dirty, sordes (*svordes), dirt (see sordid).
  2. from Middle English swarten, from Anglo-Saxon sweartian = Middle Dutch swerten, Dutch zwarten = Old High German swarzjan, swarzan, make black, swarzēn, be or become black, Middle High German swerzen, make black, swarzen, be or become black, German schwärzen, make black, = Icelandic sverta, sorta = Swedish svärta = Danish sværte, make black; cf. Danish sortne, become black; from the adjective
 

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