verdoy

English

Etymology

French verdoyer (“to become green”). See verdant.

Adjective

verdoy (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border.
   • 1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... the second edition, page 21:

     Gules a Bordure Argent charged with Verdoy of Trefoils slipped proper, that is Vert.

   • 1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical, page 172:

     SCOTT of Hedderwick, a younger son of Scott of Logie, argent, a fesse crenellé, between three lions' heads erased, gules; within a bordure of the last, verdoy of six flower-de-luces of the first.

   • 1827, Encyclopaedias, Encyclopaedia Edinensis: or, Dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, page 163:

     Quarterly; 1st and 4th, the arms of France and England, quarterly; 2d, arms of Scotland; and 3d, those of Ireland; the whole within a border compone, argent and gules, the first charged with verdoy of roses of the second […]

Further reading

• “verdoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.