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verdured, ppl. a.|ˈvɜːdjʊəd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
†1. Of wine: Having a (specified) taste. Obs.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe iii. xviii. (1541) 69 Moderate vse of small wynes, clere and well verdured, is herein very commendable. 1548Udall Erasmus Par. Luke vi. 73 The sower verdured wyne of the olde supersticion.
2. Clad with verdure or vegetation; covered with grass.
a1718T. Parnell Gift of Poetry (1894) 193 Lonely pleasure leads To verdur'd banks, to paths adorn'd with flowers. 1798W. Mavor Brit. Tourists V. 71 The terrific ascent of St. Catherine's..is well verdured. 1839Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) II. App. 398 There are two houses just built by the roadside, and opposite to them a little patch of ground just verdured. 1893Scribner's Mag. June 734/2 A peculiar valley..made up of palisades and verdured plateaus. |