SWART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swart mean? 

• SWART (adjective)
  The adjective SWART has 1 sense:

1. naturally having skin of a dark color

  Familiarity information: SWART used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWART (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Naturally having skin of a dark color

Synonyms:

dark-skinned; dusky; swart; swarthy

Context example:

'swart' is archaic

Similar:

brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

But she lay there limp and lifeless in the bloody, trampled snow, almost literally torn to pieces, the swart half-breed standing over her and cursing horribly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)