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Jul 10, 2025
This week’s themeWords related to colors This week’s words festucine spadiceous verdazurine ![]() ![]() Photo: Tiket2 / Wikimedia
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with Anu Gargverdazurine
PRONUNCIATION:
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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