Timeline for Word for adding greenery to a barren landscape
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 7:52 | answer | added | Kris | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 3:11 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | William Caxton used the verb verdoying to mean waxing green in his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, from the French verb verdoyer: “A grene medowe full of herbes verdoying or wexyng grene.” But today the word verdoy sees little currency as a verb, having been relegated to the formal language of heraldry and demoted from its verbness. I suspect this was not the word that had been on the tip of your tongue here, but I’m quite willing to be wrong about that suspicion. :) | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 2:32 | history | edited | Laurel♦ |
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 2:10 | comment | added | Laurel♦ | Example sentence? | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 1:56 | history | asked | AaronF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |