Definition of Targe

1. n. A shield or target.

Definition of Targe

1. Noun. (archaic) A small shield. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Targe

1. a small, round shield [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Targe

tardy slip
tardy slips
tardying
tardyon
tardyonic
tardyons
tare
tared
tarenflurbil
tarente
tarentism
tarentula
tarentulas
tares
taret organ
targe (current term)
targed
targes
target
target-hunting
target acquisition system
target area
target audience
target behaviour
target cell
target cell anaemia
target company
target domain
target gland
target group

Literary usage of Targe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"interrupted targe ; ' I'll permit no man that ever wore breeches to speak ... I do not know where you may have been bred, Mr targe,' said Buchanan ..."

2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of by Robert Chambers (1844)
"interrupted targe ; ' I'll permit no man that erer wore breeches to speak ... I do not know where you may have been bred, Mr targe,' said Buchanan ..."

3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1849)
"interrupted targe ; ' I'll permit no man that ever wore breeches to speak ... I do not know where you may have been bred, Mr targe,' said Buchanan ..."

4. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1902)
"The conversation then taking another turn, targe, who was a great genealogist, ... interrupted targe; ' I '11 permit no man that ever wore breeches to speak ..."

5. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"Of the lighter sketches, the scenes between the two Scotchmen, targe and Buchanan, ... Duncan targe, a hot Highlander, who had been out in the Forty-five, ..."

6. Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest Productions of edited by Robert Chambers (1851)
"interrupted targe ; • I'll permit no man that ever wore breeches to speak ... I do not know where you may have been bred, Mr targe,' said Buchanan ..."

7. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"1 And such a phantom, too, Ч is said, With Highland broadsword, targe, and plaid, Have borne me as a knight; But when this unexpected foe Seemed starting ..."

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