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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
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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