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Leafage vs Verdure - What's the difference?

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Leafage is a related term of verdure.


As nouns the difference between leafage and verdure

is that leafage is the leaves of plants collectively; foliage while verdure is the greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself.

leafage

English

Noun

  • The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.
    • Color change in New England is the tourist time, when people come to see the leafage turn brilliant colors.
  • * 1932 , Rudyard Kipling, They
    • She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child, it seemed, clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer.

    verdure

    English

    Noun

  • 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 142
    • The 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.
  • *
    • To 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.

    • Related terms

    * verdant * verdurous