verded

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English uerd (“the colour green”) (c. 1450), later verd (“green, verdancy”) (1603).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːdɪd/

Adjective

verded (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Verdant; made green.

   The verded fields stretched as far as the eye could see.

Usage notes

This term is rarely used in modern English, having been largely replaced by "verdant" or simply "green".

Quotations

• 1618, William Lithgow, Poetical Remains, page 28:

  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.]