Argent

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

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Rock band - Argent (band)

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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.

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Heraldry - Tincture - Colour - White - Book - Label - British Royal Family

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

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