Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Argante

(3 syl.).

A giantess of unbridled licentiousness, in Spenser's Faërie Queene, iii. 7.

That geauntesse Argantè is behight,
A daughter of the Titans ...
Her sire Typhoeus was. ...

Book iii, 7, st. 47.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Argantes
Argand Lamp
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