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Jul 10, 2025
This week’s theme
Words related to colors

This week’s words
fulvous
festucine
spadiceous
verdazurine

verdazurine
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verdazurine

PRONUNCIATION:
(vuhrd-AZH-uh-reen)

MEANING:
adjective: Bluish-green; sea-green.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Italian verdazzurro (sea-green), from verde (green) + azzurro (blue). Earliest documented use: 1681.

USAGE:
“The water turns verdazurine this time of year.”
Peter Geye; A Lesser Light; University of Minnesota Press; 2025.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. -Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922)

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