verdoy

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adjective

Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border.

OriginFrench verdoyer →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adjectiveverdoy (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegovernmentCharged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border.

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

    1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... the second edition, page 21
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    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.

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

    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[…]

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

Origin

  1. Frenchverdoyer“to become green”
  2. Englishverdoy

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

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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