verdigris

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ver·di·gris

(vûr′dĭ-grēs′, -grĭs′, -grē′)

1. A blue or green powder consisting of basic cupric acetate used as a paint pigment and fungicide.

2. A green patina or crust of copper sulfate or copper chloride formed on copper, brass, and bronze exposed to air or seawater for long periods of time.

[Middle English vertegrez, from Old French verte grez, alteration of vert-de-Grice : verd, green; see verdant + de, of (from Latin dē; see de-) + Grice, Greece.]

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verdigris

(ˈvɜːdɪɡrɪs)

1. (Elements & Compounds) a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze and consisting of a basic salt of copper containing both copper oxide and a copper salt

2. (Elements & Compounds) a green or blue crystalline substance obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper and used as a fungicide and pigment; basic copper acetate

[C14: from Old French vert de Grice green of Greece]

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ver•di•gris

(ˈvɜr dɪˌgris, -grɪs)

n.

a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.

[1250–1300; Middle English vertegrez < Old French vere grez green of Greece]

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Noun	1.	verdigris - a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment cupric acetate pigment - dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
	2.	verdigris - 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 patina - a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal
Verb	1.	verdigris - color verdigris color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

Translations

Grünspan

verderame

verdigris

[ˈvɜːdɪgriːs] N → verdete m, cardenillo m

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verdigris

n → Grünspan m

adj metal, copper, bronze → mit Grünspan bedeckt; finish, effect → grünspanig

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verdigris

[ˈvɜːdɪgrɪs] n → verderame m

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The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris. It chanced that the face was towards me; the sightless eyes seemed to watch me; there was the faint shadow of a smile on the lips.

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With the point of his cutlass Snider scraped the dirt and verdigris from the face of the larger ornament.

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Clips and empty cartridges, tarnished with verdigris, lay on the ground, which, while wet, had been torn up by the hoofs of horses.

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And though now nailed amidst all the rustiness of iron bolts and the verdigris of copper spikes, yet, untouchable and immaculate to any foulness, it still preserved its Quito glow.

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Above the straight line of the uppermost irrigating ditch, all is brown as on a high road; while all below is of as bright a green as verdigris, from the beds of alfalfa, a kind of clover.

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It contained nothing but a brass lamp, covered with verdigris, and a dusty piece of parchment.

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Straight from the ocean's depths rose towering cliffs, shot with brown and blues and greens--withered moss and lichen and the verdigris of copper, and everywhere the rusty ocher of iron pyrites.

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They were all quite green and dull, coated with years of verdigris.

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Officials in Muskogee and Wagoner counties urged voluntary evacuations of low-lying areas along the Arkansas River, where water could be seen up to roofs, as well as along the rising Verdigris River.

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Persian manuscripts from the library's collection were the focus of a workshop on April 13 titled "Various Greens in Persian Paintings with Reference to Copper Green Verdigris and its Deterioration and Stabilisation".