Noun: verdaille
| Singular | verdaille |
| Plural | verdailles |
Sample Sentences
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Unless the work of a skilled imitator, Pillement also executed an oil painting in monochromatic shades of olive green, called “Verdaille”, featuring a smaller procession of figures riding on elephants. [2006, Maria Gordon-Smith, Pillement, page 51:]
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Verdaille is a painting created entirely in green. Unlike other colourwork, in which a single hue is either tinted in lighter tones or shaded into darker tones, verdaille can involve many different hues. [2012 June 27, Sheila Singhal, “Elephant No. 269: Verdaille”, in An Elephant a Day:]
Nouns inflected like verdaille
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare French vert (“green”), as well as English grisaille or brunaille, from French. See: French Nouns '
vert'.