Middle English Dictionary Entry
vert adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | vert adj. Also verte, verd, wert, (error) vertve. |
| Etymology | OF vert, verte, wart, (chiefly AF) verd adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Her. Tinctured with the color green;
(b) cook. in combs.: ~ desir, a dish made with parsley for coloring; sauce ~, = vert-sauce n.;
(c) sauge ~, fresh sage, as opposed to the dried herb.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.3 (Hrl 2169)192 : The feld wert [with three golden griffons passant…Silver a wyvern] wertt armyd wt gowlys.
- c1475 Sln.4 Recipes in Rel.Ant.1 (Sln 4)324 : There he but [read: put] ij metallys and v colours yn all blasyng of armes, that ys to say, sylver and gold metalles, sabylls, aser, gowles, synaper, and vertecolers.
b
- a1325 Add.46919 Cook.Recipes (Add 46919)45.2/1 : Vert desire: Milke of alemaundes, flour of ris, braun of chapoun, red wyn, sucre, percelie; þe colour schal beo grene.
- a1325 Add.46919 Cook.Recipes (Add 46919)48.29/3 : Ermine: Hit schal beon ymad qwit & wel ysauoured of god poudre of gynger & quibibes & cloues, & þis mete schal beon perti wiþ vert desire.
- c1450 Rwl.Cook.Recipes in Hieatt Ord.Pottage (Rwl D.1222)p.108 : Sauce verd: Take perslye, myntes, deteyne, & peletre; grynde them smale.
c
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)67/9 : Take…a pynt of þe jusse of sauge vertve [read: verte].