viridian

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The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025

For instance: Anyone who’s seen “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” knows it’s not the viridian vanquisher whose wrath Gawain should fear, but the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog!

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2021

The playwright meticulously unwraps his psychology, interrupting the churlish commentary with lush and tender descriptions of color, like the “magenta, crimson lake, viridian, burnt sienna, cinnabar green” he’s putting to use in a painting.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2021

Mr. Winters’s points of reference are the Dry and Herb Gardens, as evidenced by the palette of lavender, lime and viridian green in a new painting titled “Wave Hill.”

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2011

She’d tried to steal a new bandanna for herself—all viridian with gold paisley, much finer than her faded red one—but the clothier had noticed.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee