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verdigris

[vur-di-grees, -gris] / ˈvɜr dɪˌgris, -grɪs /


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Still, the show had some great one-off moments - including one from model, Gigi Hadid, who closed the show in a verdigris pant-look speckled with matching diaphanous embroidered feathers.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2019

There is the copper-arsenite Scheele’s Green, synthesized at the beginning of the nineteenth century and more dazzling than traditional verdigris, the green-blue patina given off by corroded copper.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

The green-pigmented verdigris paint and hand-drawn, individually stenciled wallpaper with a flower pattern in pinks, yellows, and blues dates to the Turners.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

We could see the verdigris bronze statue of Bosch in the city square, and two of the three houses where he once lived.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2016

Nearby there were three preat pillars covered in green verdigris so thick it looked like noss.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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