Meaning of viridian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bluish-green pigment made from chromium sesquioxide.
   countable, uncountable
2. A bluish-green color.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this addition to the artist’s palette. The colour of viridian is a very deep bluish green of great purity and transparency. It furnishes, with aureolin on the one hand and with ultramarine on the other, an immense number of beautiful hues, adapted to represent the colours of vegetation and of water.”

“Then Miss Sloviak emerged from the ladies' room, hair reestablished, cheeks rouged, eyelids freshly painted a soft viridian, smelling of what I recognised as Cristalle, the fragrance worn both by my wife, Emily, and also by my lover, Sara Gaskell.”

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