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The Mult-Lingual Verdure
English speakers have had the use of the word verdure since the 14th century, when it made its way into Middle English from Anglo-French. Like the more common verdant, the word traces back to Latin virēre, meaning "to be green." Since the early 16th century, verdure has also been used to refer to a kind of tapestry with a design based on plant forms. The verdure that English speakers sometimes encounter on menus is Italian; in that language verdure refers to green vegetables or to vegetables in general (as in "fettuccine con verdure").
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Examples of verdure in a Sentence
Emily Evans Eerdmans, Architectural Digest, 23 July 2024
The interiors, conceived in part by the design studio Roman and Williams, are colorful and inviting, layered with verdure tapestries and antique furniture upholstered in offbeat jewel-toned textiles.
—Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
Menu highlights: Crocchette, focaccia di recco, tortelloni tartufo, campanelle verdure, burratella pizza, peppino pizza, semifreddo.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
But no matter how heated things got at home because of her rebelliousness, one dish was always a unifier: her mother’s minestra di verdure.
—Rooksana Hossenally, Saveur, 12 July 2023
Before our trip to the distillery, Omar and I had been in the tiny Oaxacan village of Santo Tomás Jalieza, a place of large-leaved verdure, corrugated steel fencing and tropical lanes of red earth, with puddles that reflected the vacant intensity of the Mexican sky.
—New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
AudioLust & HigherLove writing sessions were hosted at two residential recording studios in the U.K.: Decoy Residential, set in the verdure of the Suffolk countryside, and Angelic Recording Studio, perched on a rural hill 90 minutes outside of London.
—Rachel Narozniak, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
While tourists have returned in full force to Paris, with crowds thronging the major monuments in the city center, Bagatelle offers intriguing heritage, a chateau born of a bet with Marie Antoinette, and 59 acres of verdure about five miles from the Notre-Dame cathedral.
—Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
In contrast is the almost hallucinatory verdure of the grounds outdoors, the world of the gamekeeper (Jack O’Connell) with whom the Lady forges a passionate affair.
—Maria Neuman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
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“Verdure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verdure. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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