Word of the Day Archive
Friday March 17, 2000
verdure \VUR-jur\ , noun:
Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.
A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea.
-- Motley
The first white settlers in the area started as yeomen, scouring the land of trees and verdure to create and homesteads.
-- Claude Andrew Clegg III, An Original Man
The road silent, somnolent yet with a speech of its own, speaking back to them, father and child, through trappings of sun and fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies and a fresh crime mounting in the blood.
-- Edna O'Brien, Down by the River
Verdure is from Old French verd, green, from Latin viridis.
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