verdure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French verdure.
Pronunciation
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Noun
verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)
- 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 January, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
- Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.
Related terms
Translations
greenness, vegetation
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condition of health and vigour
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Verb
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- (transitive) To cover with verdure.
Derived terms
Dutch
Verb
verdure
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
verdure f (plural verdures)
Further reading
- “verdure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ure
Noun
verdure f pl
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