verdure

English

Etymology

From Old French verdure.

Noun

verdure (countable and uncountable; plural verdures)

1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare

     [...] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142

     The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.

   • 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter I

     To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.

2. (hence) A condition of health and vigour.

Related terms

• verdant
• verdurous

Translations

greenness, vegetation

• Russian: зелень (ru) (zélenʹ) f

• Swedish: grönska (sv) c

condition of health and vigour

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Dutch

Verb

verdure

1. singular present subjunctive of verduren

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French

Etymology

vert +‎ -ure

Pronunciation

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Noun

verdure f (plural verdures)

1. verdure, greenness

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Italian

Noun

verdure f pl

1. Plural form of verdura