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verdure

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ver·dure

[vur-jer]
noun
1.
greenness, especially of fresh, flourishing vegetation.
2.
green vegetation, especially grass or herbage.
3.
freshness in general; flourishing condition; vigor.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French, equivalent to verd green (see vert) + -ure -ure

ver·dured, adjective
ver·dure·less, adjective
un·ver·dured, adjective
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
Example Sentences
  • The first white settlers in the area started as yeomen, scouring the land of trees and verdure to create and homesteads.
  • Tropical verdure also masks tropical geology, the underlying story of how the landscape came to.
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World English Dictionary
verdure (ˈvɜːdʒə)
 
n
1.  flourishing green vegetation or its colour
2.  a condition of freshness or healthy growth
 
[C14: from Old French verd green, from Latin viridis]
 
'verdured
 
adj
 
'verdurous
 
adj

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Word Origin & History

verdure
c.1300, "fresh green color," from O.Fr. verdure "greenness," from verd, variant of vert "green," from L. viridis (cf. Sp., It. verde), related to virere "be green," of unknown origin. Perhaps ult. from a root meaning "growing plant" and cognate with Lith. veisti "propagate," O.N. visir "bud, sprout,"
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O.E. wise "sprout, stalk, etc." Meaning "green plants, vegetation" is attested from c.1400.
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