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語源

From Late 中期英語 uerd (“the colour green”) (c. 1450), later verd (“green, verdancy”) (1603).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈvɜːdɪd/

形容詞

verded (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Verdant; made green.

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

   • 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.]

   • 1913, J. H. Hendren, “"Personal observations of Pellagra in Eastern Kentucky"”, in Kentucky Medical Journal, page 369:

     A hundred little towns and villages dotted here and there besprinkling the verded slopes like jewels to an emerald isle; […]

   • 1915, Voila McLemen, "APRIL ENTERTAINING: Why Not Have a Violet Luncheon?", in Cooking Club Magazine, volume 17, page 5:

     […] Between the bowls a row of three verded copper candlesticks with white tapers and violet shades lend a pretty finish. […]

使用する際の注意点

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

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