verdure

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Beneath I trod on that fresh, even, and soft verdure which is to be seen only in England.

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  1. noun The lush greenness of flourishing vegetation.
  2. noun Vigorous greenery.
  3. noun A fresh or flourishing condition: the verdure of childhood.

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  • I feasted on the rocks and wild verdure, the mosses and ferns and lichen, the scrub forest and tangled undergrowth, among which we plunged and scrambled; above all, on those vast leafy walls which shut in the glen, and almost took away my breath with their towering lonely grandeur. —  Daisy
  • Standing out from a wealth of blossom and verdure was an old well, surmounted by some ancient and picturesque ironwork. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891
  • Sometimes as we walk toward the mossy bank in the glen where the fresh green leaves of the haircap mosses were last year's first signs of vernal verdure, the bluebird calls to us from the torch-like top of the smooth sumac and shyly tells us that, if we please, spring is here. —  Some Winter Days in Iowa
  • He found himself in tunnels of verdure, the sunlight shut off by the heavy leafage; then the path debouched into the open and, skirting closely the rocky wall, it widened into an island of green where a shady pagoda invited. —  Visionaries
  • The vales have that pastoral beauty and constant verdure which is so familiar to us in England, with similar enclosures and hedge-rows and fruit and forest trees. —  Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from verd, green, from Latin viridis.

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  1. from Middle English verdure, from Old French verdure, French verdure (= Spanish Portuguese Italian verdura), from verd, vert, from Latin viridis, green: see verd.
  2. from verdure, n.
 

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