dure
1 Americanadjective
verb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of dure1
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French < Latin dūrus hard
Origin of dure2
1225–75; Middle English < Old French durer < Latin dūrāre to last; see dure 1
Example Sentences
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Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs--fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters.
From Time Magazine Archive
How long the relationship can en dure will depend not on U.S. wishes but Japan's own self-interest.
From Time Magazine Archive
“As the saying goes, ‘No hay mal que dure cien años.’”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
One silver half-dollar did I recklessly give away to the Irish washerwoman, who had said: "God niver shuts one dure without openin' anither!"
From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
“Has not the French poet written a very serious truth in those lines: ‘Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment; chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie’?”
From Hushed Up! A Mystery of London by William Le Queux
The seventy interpreters say that this first age dured two thousand two hundred and forty-four years.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
For three whole days—this is no fable—the pleasing festival dured, at the which all were made welcome and at their ease.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
Yet had he not root in himself, but dured for a while; for when tribulation or persecution arose because of the word by and by he was offended.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte
Unmerry he dured So that yet of that strife the trouble he suffer'd.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
And on the sleepers fell a wondrous dream, That dured till sunrise, filling all the cells Remotest of the throbbing heart and brain.
From A Hidden Life and Other Poems by George MacDonald
Altman and Amodei called for international standards and regulation during back-to-back testimony last week before the United Nations General Assembly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
However, the players voted to fulfil the fixture during a lengthy meeting at the team's hotel in Debrecen on Saturday.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Under the law, parliament speaker Ana Brnabic now becomes acting president for up to three months, during which a presidential election must be called.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Sepulveda said alumni donated money during the summer that was used in building the cage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
She already speaks two languages—her native Filipino, of course, and English, which was taught to Filipinos during the American occupation—but she wants to learn others.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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