verded
adjUK /ˈvɜːdɪd/
Etymology From Late Middle English uerd (“the colour green”) (c. 1450), later verd (“green, verdancy”) (1603).
- The verded fields stretched as far as the eye could see.
- 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:
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- 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: