Verdigris

Definitions

1. A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
   countable, uncountable
2. Copper acetate.
   countable, dated, uncountable
3. The color of this patina or material.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Let's to^([sic]) the museum. Cannon-balls; arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.”

“[…]there were three small brass coins there, the gift of Ymar. Their legends, like⟳ their faces, had worn away; and they were dark with verdigris — in appearance precisely the ancient things they were.”

“Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce⟳ five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make⟳ a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make⟳ a fine graſs Green.”

“[…]let⟳ them tell⟳ me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.”

“Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own⟳ Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.”

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