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 Argand’ Lamp.Argan’tes (3 syl.). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Argan’te (3 syl.).
 
A giantess of unbridled licentiousness, in Spenser’s Faërie Queene, iii. 7.   1
       
“That geauntesse Argantè is behight,
A daughter of the Titans … .
Her sire Typhœus was… . .”
       
Book iii. 7, st. 47.
 


 Argand’ Lamp.Argan’tes (3 syl.). 

 
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