swart
IPA: swˈɔrt
noun
- (UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff.
- A surname.
- Obsolete spelling of sward [(uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.]
- (IE dialectal) Variant of swath. [The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.]
verb
- (transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
adjective
- Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- (UK dialectal) Black.
- (obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
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Examples of "swart" in Sentences
- I noticed you removed a speedy tag from Valiant Swart.
- Jack Swart is the General Manager for Connoisseur in the market.
- The reserve lies on the estuary formed by the Seekoei and Swart rivers.
- Grewe stopped playing bass and Sebastian Swart joined as the bass player.
- Now, I will photograph the tree in its demise, upended in swart disarray.
- It was he who administered the oaths of office to Swart on both occasions.
- Also Peter Swart played in the one day match, but not the first class match.
- A slender, swart-skinned man, lithe of figure and graceful, stepped forward to the open space before the table.
- Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit.
- The four were swarthy men, and, unlike the Greeks they were seeking to oppose, their swart was a peculiarity of birth, a racial sign.
- And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love.
- "Other political parties, like the NP, have nothing else to campaign about and can no longer use their" swart - "and" rooigevaar "tactics and are now reverting to using the" moving parliament gevaar ".
- The swart face of the older half-breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be delighted to plant him in the snow.
- How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
- Beyond the wide court slept a dark abyss, and into the abyss there poured a white cascade of marble stairways, and widened out below into terraces and balconies with fair white statues on them, and descended again in a wide stairway, and came to lower terraces in the dark, where swart uncertain shapes went to and fro.
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