argentry
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Articles formed of silver; silver plate.
- noun Silvery appearance.
Examples
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And so, in its confused argentry and ghostliness, its crystallization and diaphinity, his music resembles at times nothing so much as the precious remains and specimens of an extinct planet; things transfixed in cold eternal night, icy and phosphorescent of hue.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
Note
The word 'argentry' comes from a Latin word meaning 'silver'.
