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adjective

Argentine adj.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. "Celestial Dian, goddess argentine."

Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.

noun

Argentine n.

(Min.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

White metal coated with silver.

(Zool.) A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

A citizen of the Argentine Republic; an Argentinian.

Argentina; in this sense, usually preceded by the.

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Etymology of 'Argentine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Argentine" Quotes from Famous Books

... exporting capital to foreign countries. The capital we export goes out in the form of mining machinery to South Africa, steel rails to India, coal to South America; the interest due to us comes home in the form of American wheat, Argentine beef, Australian wool, Indian tea, ...

— Are we Ruined by the Germans? • Harold Cox

... and I were going to the Argentine, to dwell in rural felicity, and teach our children to bless the name of Mahomet and ...

— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy

... time at sea! Quite excite to smell the ocean again and go rolling down the narrow gangways between the white state-room doors. Off for a month's flying in Brazil and Argentine, with Tony Bean. Will look up data for coming exploration of Amazon headwaters. Martin Dockerill like a regular Beau Brummel in new white flannels, parading the deck, making eyes at pretty Greaser girls. It's good to ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... seventy-two. From all parts of the country in solid, waveless tides wheat—the mass of it incessantly crushing down the price—came rolling in upon Chicago and the Board of Trade Pit. All over the world the farmers saw season after season of good crops. They were good in the Argentine Republic, and on the Russian steppes. In India, on the little farms of Burmah, of Mysore, and of Sind the grain, year after year, headed out fat, heavy, and well-favoured. In the great San Joaquin valley of California the ranches were one welter of fertility. All over the United ...

— The Pit • Frank Norris

... A General Advance to Balmoral and Back. To Rustenburg. Ambushed. Heavy Work for the Recording Angel. Relief of Eland's River Garrison. Join in the great De Wet hunt. After De Wet. The Yeoman, the Argentine and ...

— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross

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