verded en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈvɜːdɪd/ (UK)
Etymology
From Late Middle English uerd (“the colour green”) (c. 1450), later verd (“green, verdancy”) (1603).
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete, rare) Verdant; made green.
A hundred little towns and villages dotted here and there besprinkling the verded slopes like jewels to an emerald isle; […]
1913, J. H. Hendren, “"Personal observations of Pellagra in Eastern Kentucky"”, in Kentucky Medical Journal, page 369:[…] Between the bowls a row of three verded copper candlesticks with white tapers and violet shades lend a pretty finish. […]
1915, Voila McLemen, “APRIL ENTERTAINING: Why Not Have a Violet Luncheon?”, in Cooking Club Magazine, volume 17, page 5:Thy verded face, contaminates thy proouer, And with false showes [etc.] … Thou seem'st without more brighter than the golde Ten thousand vales of glistring showes decore thee [etc.]
1618, William Lithgow, Poetical Remains, page 28:The verded fields stretched as far as the eye could see.