argentry

Silver material, or silverness in color.

Noun

  1. Silver material, or silverness in color.
    • bowls of frosted argentry - 1655, James Howell, “The Vote”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

Origin

From French argenterie, from argent (“silver”), from Latin argentum.