swart
1 Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- swartness noun
Etymology
Origin of swart
before 900; Middle English; Old English sweart black, dark; cognate with German schwarz, Old Norse svartr, Gothic swarts; akin to Latin sordēs filth
Example Sentences
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Foodhandlers, working under arc lights, stopped to stare and pound their frozen hands together, as out of the car emerged a small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Squiggle, loop, scratch went the fountain pen of a swart little Dictator-King Ahmed Zogu, last week, signing out the old Islamic law of Albania, signing in a new civil code based on the Swiss.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The rebel unionists settled back with a swallowed-the-canary attitude as Lee Pressman, C.I.O.'s swart, handsome general counsel, read the A. F. of L. telegram.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eight days of Pedro were apparently enough for Chile's wily Dictator, swart President Carlos Ibanez.
From Time Magazine Archive
His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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