Word of the Day

Sunday, November 06, 2005

verdure

\VUR-jur\ , noun;

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.

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Quotes:

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

Origin:

Verdure is from Old French verd, green, from Latin viridis.