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vert  (vûrt)
n.
1. Heraldry The color green.
2.
a. Green vegetation that can serve as cover for deer. Used in English forest law.
b. The right to cut such vegetation.

[Middle English verte, from Anglo-Norman, feminine of verd; see verderer.]

vert [vɜːt]
n
1. English legal history
a.  (Law) the right to cut green wood in a forest
b.  (Law) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) the wood itself
2. (History / Heraldry) (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) Heraldry
a.  the colour green
b.  (as adjective, usually postpositive) a table vert
[from Old French verd, from Latin viridis green, from virēre to grow green]


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Argent, a bend vert between cotises dancette gules.
The next day, the great Southdown female family carriage, with the Earl's coronet and the lozenge (upon which the three lambs trottant argent upon the field vert of the Southdowns, were quartered with sable on a bend or, three snuff-mulls gules, the cognizance of the house of Binkie), drove up in state to Miss Crawley's door, and the tall serious footman handed in to Mr.
But I was interested in the preservation of the venison and the vert more than the hunters or woodchoppers, and as much as though I had been the Lord Warden himself; and if any part was burned, though I burned it myself by accident, I grieved with a grief that lasted longer and was more inconsolable than that of the proprietors; nay, I grieved when it was cut down by the proprietors themselves.
 
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