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vert
UK /vɜːt/ US /vɝt/
noun 7adj 2verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
green
VERB + VERT
field
VERT + NOUN
venison
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.
2
Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3
The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
“I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”
adj
1
In blazon, of the colour green.
adj
1
Abbreviation of vertical.
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The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.
Wiktionary02
“I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”
Wiktionary03
Theſe are Ani-mad-versions indeed, when a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, againſt his true intent, and their Grammaticall ſenſe.
Wiktionary04
Hippias not only came aboveground, he flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.
Wiktionary05
A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted:[…].
Wiktionary06
The family crest features a lion on a field of vert.
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