Argent

Categories: Heraldic tinctures

This article describes the argent heraldic tincture. For the rock band, see Argent (band).

In heraldry, argent is the tincture with the colour silver, very frequently depicted as white and supposed to be almost interchangeable with it. However, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies argued extensively in his book The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory that, though extremely rare, the colour white existed as a separate colour in heraldry, typically in the white—never described or depicted as argent—labels borne by members of the British Royal Family.

In Latin, argentum is "white money", or silver.

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