Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with verdnre; clothed with the fresh color of vegetation; verdant: as, verdurous pastures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant.
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- adjective Freshly green; verdant; covered with
verdure , or consisting of it. - adjective Having
youthful or new qualities.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Founded in 1684, just one year after its neighbour, Aduana - which faded immediately from prominence - Alamos rose to become the cultural, economic and spiritual centre of this splendid landscape of swooping, verdurous hills and sky-thrusting crags of rock.
Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm 2009
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God surrounds "delicious Paradise" with a "verdurous wall", enclosing his blessed but vulnerable human couple.
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Founded in 1684, just one year after its neighbour, Aduana - which faded immediately from prominence - Alamos rose to become the cultural, economic and spiritual centre of this splendid landscape of swooping, verdurous hills and sky-thrusting crags of rock.
Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm 2009
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In 2002, at the beginning of his tenure as a F.d governor, he picked two traditional landscapes: "Harvest Scene, New York State" (c. 1859), a rare American subject by the expatriate artist Thomas Hotchkiss, and an untitled romantic view of a verdurous valley by Arthur F. Bellows.
What Fed Chiefs Like Mary Anne Goley 2010
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In 2002, at the beginning of his tenure as a F.d governor, he picked two traditional landscapes: "Harvest Scene, New York State" (c. 1859), a rare American subject by the expatriate artist Thomas Hotchkiss, and an untitled romantic view of a verdurous valley by Arthur F. Bellows.
What Fed Chiefs Like Mary Anne Goley 2010
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In 2002, at the beginning of his tenure as a F.d governor, he picked two traditional landscapes: "Harvest Scene, New York State" (c. 1859), a rare American subject by the expatriate artist Thomas Hotchkiss, and an untitled romantic view of a verdurous valley by Arthur F. Bellows.
What Fed Chiefs Like Mary Anne Goley 2010
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His favorite word is verdurous, his least favorite is mediocre, and his favorite spell is Alahomora.
Daniel Radcliffe Livens Up ‘Inside The Actors Studio’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Keats famously used it in "Ode to a Nightingale" in the line "Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways."
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I saw part of Radcliffe's episode of "Inside the Actor's Studio," wherein he mentioned that verdurous -- which means "freshly green" or "verdant" (it's seldom used anymore) -- was his favorite word.
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Prunes no hedger's bill broad-verging verdurous arbours;
Poems and Fragments 2006
nerdyperv commented on the word verdurous
What shall we who count our days and bow
Our heads with a commemorial woe
In the ribboned coats of grim felicity,
What shall we say of the bones, unclean,
Whose verdurous anonymity will grow?
- Allen Tate, Ode to the Confederate Dead, 1928
June 18, 2011