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foliage
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic, dialectal, nonstandard) foilage
- (archaic) feuillage
Etymology
From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by the Latin etymon folium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??li?d?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?fo?li?d?/
Noun
foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)
- The leaves of plants.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (short for) Fall foliage.
- An architectural ornament representing foliage.
Translations
Anagrams
- foilage
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verdure
English
Etymology
From Middle English verdure, from Old French verdure.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??d???/, /?v??dj?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?d???/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d??(?)
- Homophone: verger (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: ver?dure
Noun
verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)
- The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
- The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
- To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.
Related terms
- verdant
- verdurous
Translations
Verb
verdure (third-person singular simple present verdures, present participle verduring, simple past and past participle verdured)
- (transitive) To cover with verdure.
Derived terms
- reverdure
Dutch
Verb
verdure
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of verduren
French
Etymology
vert +? -ure
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??.dy?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
verdure f (plural verdures)
- verdure, greenness
Further reading
- “verdure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ure
Noun
verdure f pl
- plural of verdura
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