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Arganʹte (3 syl.)

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A giantess of unbridled licentiousness, in Spenser’s Faërie Queene, iii. 7.

That geauntesse Argantè is behight,

A daughter of the Titans … .

Her sire Typhœus was… . .”


Book iii. 7, st. 47.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Arcite
Arcos Barbs
Arctic Region
Arden (Enoch)
Area-sneak
Areopagus
Aretine
Aretinian Syllables
Argan
Argand Lamp
Argante
Argantes
Argenis
Argentile and Curan
Argentine Republic
Argeo (in Orlando Furioso)
Argillan (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Argo
Argonauts
Argosy
Argot [Argo]