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vert

 (vûrt)
n.
1. Heraldry The color green.
2.
a. Green vegetation serving as cover or food 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.]
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vert

(vɜːt)
n
1. (Law) the right to cut green wood in a forest
2. (Law) the wood itself
3. (Botany) the wood itself
4. (Forestry) the wood itself
5. (Heraldry) heraldry
a. the colour green
b. (as adjective, usually postpositive): a table vert.
6. (Colours) heraldry
a. the colour green
b. (as adjective, usually postpositive): a table vert.
[C15: from Old French verd, from Latin viridis green, from virēre to grow green]
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vert

(vɜrt)

n.
1. the heraldic color green.
2. Archaic.
a. the green leaves of forest vegetation, serving as food and cover for deer.
b. the right to cut the green wood of such vegetation.
[1400–50; late Middle English verte < Anglo-French, Middle French vert, verd < Latin viridis green =vir(ēre) to be green]

vert.

vertical.
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*Turns to the green fern or "vert." Vert is French for "green."
"Argent, a bend vert between cotises dancette gules."
``I understand thee,'' said the King, ``and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.
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.
Calvetron Brands, which owns the Jacques Vert and Precis names, went into administration in May.
Calvetron acquired Jacques Vert and a host of other retail brands in a pre-pack administration last year.
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It was formed from the merger of Jacques Vert and Irisa Group in 2012, following Sun European's acquisition of Jacques Vert.
Armed with the right fabrics, a zero-waste philosophy and a manufacturing process completely based in the United States, Amour Vert quickly became the goldstandard of environmentally-friendly fashion.