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noun tɑːdʒtɑrdʒ archaic term for target (sense 2 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples - Their blood up, the Jacobites, most of them armed with small round shields, known as targes, and double-edged broadswords, hurtled down the slope.
- As the claymores, targes and antique pistols on the walls of Seaforth Cottage also testify, domicile north of the Great Glen can also engender a degree of swashbuckling.
- Some targes had center bosses of brass, and a few of these could accept a long steel spike which screwed into a small ‘puddle’ of lead which was fixed to the wood, under the boss.
- In Jacobite times, targes were the highlanders' main means of defence in battle.
- To the Highlanders the Targe was both a life preserving tool and a status symbol with ornate decorations.
OriginOld English targa, targe, of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old French targe. noun tɑːdʒtɑrdʒ Northern Irish, Scottish informal A formidably aggressive older woman. she was an old targe of a schoolteacher Example sentencesExamples - I'm going to look forward to being a targe in my old age.
- We want more of Roy and his targe of a mother.
- For all her doughty declarations, there's the odd hint of vanity and vulnerability in this targe.
- The mother is a driven targe and the father is a dreamer.
- It is set in a health farm run by a targe, whose handyman is an amiable drunk.
OriginLate 19th century: from the verb targe 'to reprimand, scold, beat', of uncertain origin. nountɑrdʒtärj archaic term for target (sense 2 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples - As the claymores, targes and antique pistols on the walls of Seaforth Cottage also testify, domicile north of the Great Glen can also engender a degree of swashbuckling.
- In Jacobite times, targes were the highlanders' main means of defence in battle.
- Some targes had center bosses of brass, and a few of these could accept a long steel spike which screwed into a small ‘puddle’ of lead which was fixed to the wood, under the boss.
- To the Highlanders the Targe was both a life preserving tool and a status symbol with ornate decorations.
- Their blood up, the Jacobites, most of them armed with small round shields, known as targes, and double-edged broadswords, hurtled down the slope.
OriginOld English targa, targe, of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old French targe. nountɑrdʒtärj Scottish, Northern Irish informal A formidably aggressive older woman. she was an old targe of a schoolteacher Example sentencesExamples - For all her doughty declarations, there's the odd hint of vanity and vulnerability in this targe.
- The mother is a driven targe and the father is a dreamer.
- It is set in a health farm run by a targe, whose handyman is an amiable drunk.
- I'm going to look forward to being a targe in my old age.
- We want more of Roy and his targe of a mother.
OriginLate 19th century: from the verb targe ‘to reprimand, scold, beat’, of uncertain origin. |