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vert

1

[ vurt ]

noun

  1. English Forest Law.
    1. vegetation bearing green leaves in a forest and capable of serving as a cover for deer.
    2. the right to cut such vegetation.
  2. Heraldry. the tincture, or color, green.


adjective

  1. Heraldry. of the tincture green:

    a lion vert.

vert.

2

abbreviation for

  1. vertical.

vert

1

/ vɜːt /

noun

  1. English legal history
    1. the right to cut green wood in a forest
    2. the wood itself
  2. heraldry
    1. the colour green
    2. ( as adjective, usually postpositive )

      a table vert

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

vert.

2

abbreviation for

  1. vertical
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vert1

1400–50; late Middle English verte < Anglo-French, Middle French vert, verd < Latin viridis green, equivalent to vir ( ēre ) to be green + -idis, apparently irregular for -idus -id 4
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vert1

C15: from Old French verd, from Latin viridis green, from virēre to grow green
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Example Sentences

At the beginning of the decade, the sport’s popularity had reached a nadir — particularly vert skating, in which riders performed gravity-defying tricks as they launched off ramps and half-pipes.

“Longboarding is everything that’s not traditional street skating or vert skating,” said Don Tashman, the founder of L.A.-based longboard manufacturer Loaded Boards.

The bombings at the Mugunga and Lac Vert displacement camps killed at least 18 people and injured another 32, according to the United Nations.

Iranian Canadian producer and talent manager Amir Esmailian, also known as Cash XO, co-founded XO Records and has worked with several top hip-hop acts, including Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert and the Beyoncé-Jay-Z superduo the Carters.

Most striking among these is the basement bathroom, whose floors and walls are entirely clad in white-and-green veined Vert d’Estours marble and white-flecked deep-gray Saint Anne des Pyrenees marble in an ode to Villa Kerylos, the famous turn-of-the-20th-century ancient Greek revival-style mansion on the French Riviera.

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