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Verdigris

noun

A blue or green powder used as a paint pigment. Synonym: cupric acetate.

A green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time.

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... of fat soil, rotting vegetation and verdigris-colored scum, with a fainter green mark meandering through it—such was ...

— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... Peter broke down a further space of the wall, and laid open a small closet or cupboard on one side of the fireplace, about breast-high from the ground. It contained nothing but a brass lamp covered with verdigris, and a dusty piece of parchment. While Peter inspected the latter, Tabitha seized the lamp and began to ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... sand-hill and see how the land behind it looked. But when he had walked a couple of paces, he stubbed the toe of his wooden shoe against something hard. He stooped down, and saw that a small copper coin lay on the sand, and was so worn with verdigris that it was almost transparent. It was so poor that he didn't even bother to pick it up, but only kicked it out of ...

— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof

... may swing along the turnpike road, but there's no pier for it to stop at, and how grey and turbulent the sea is in the seventeenth century! Let's to the museum. Cannon-balls; arrow- heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris. The Rev. Jaspar Floyd dug them up at his own expense early in the forties in the Roman camp on Dods Hill—see the little ticket with the faded ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

Words linked to "Verdigris" : color in, colourise, colorise, colourize, colorize, color, patina, colour in, colour, pigment