targe

American  

[tahrj] / tɑrdʒ /

noun

Archaic.

1. a small, round shield; a target or buckler.

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targe British  

/ tɑːdʒ /

noun

1. an archaic word for shield

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Etymology

Origin of targe

before 1000; Middle English < Old French < Old Norse targa round shield; cognate with Old High German zarga rim, ring; replacing Old English targe, targa < Old Norse

Example Sentences

He ran as much as he has all season on a night when he had to, and he was as on targe with his passes, which was needed on so many third- and fourth-down plays.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2019

Next, a knight with his flaming targe See the DENT-DE-LION so bold With his feathery crest at large, On a field of the cloth of gold.

From A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden by Crane, Walter

“Those leaves They gather’d, broad as Amazonian targe, And, with what skill they had, together sew’d, To gird their waist.”

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

Say rather, from marge to blue marge The whole sky grew his targe With the sun's self for visible boss, While an Arm ran across Which the earth heaved beneath like a breast!

From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)

His targe and horse-trapping displayed a profusion of silver crosses and devices, and he looked a stately and martial warrior, curvetting at the head of his troop of well-appointed lancers.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis