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noun

patina n.

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

(Fine Arts) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.

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Etymology of 'Patina'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Patina" Quotes from Famous Books

... of doors and window openings may be cracked and need renewing. Sometimes an old house has exterior walls of plaster. These are both picturesque and rare. Patch cracks and spots where it has come loose from the lath. Old plaster has a texture and patina that modern stucco cannot simulate, so preserve it ...

— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

... agent had quite lost his breath. He coughed for a long time into his crimson handkerchief, then looked about him over the rolling dun slopes to which the young grain sprouting gave a sheen of vivid green like the patina on a Pompeian bronze ...

— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos

... through which it had passed—hands of workmen, the hands of little children, the hands of beggars, even; hard hands and gnarled hands and honest hands, the hands of mine own people—it seemed to me to have been made precious by the patina of democracy, and I thought that nothing could have been more beautiful and significant than that Lincoln's noble head should have been engraved on our smallest coin, a token of our universal daily need in hands that humbly break the bread ...

— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

Words linked to "Patina" : coating, verdigris, patinize, patinate