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Word of the Day for Sunday, February 6, 2011verdant \VUR-dnt\, adjective: 1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth. Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring. Dry as the region just outside the delta may be, it would still be covered with grasses, yellowish in the dry season, verdant in the wet. I was verdant enough to think her Agrippine very fine. Verdant comes from French verdoyant, present participle of verdoyer, "to be verdant, to grow green," from Old French verdoier, verdeier, from verd, vert, "green," from Latin viridis, "green," from virere, "to be green." | |||||||||
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  What does it mean "to pink" something, and how did the color become associated with Valentine's Day?You are minding your own business in the grocery store when wham! Pink hearts and candies placed at eye level by merchants remind you that once again, Valentine's Day is here. Why pink? How did pink become so strongly associated with February 14, roses and romance? The word pink dates back to the 1570s, when "to pink" was to... | |||||||||
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