Verdure
Origin
From Old French verdure.
Full definition of verdure
Noun
verdure
(countable and uncountable; plural verdures)- The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
- 1610, , 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 142The 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.
- Grey Riders|1To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
- (hence) A condition of health and vigour.