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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

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

Setting aside the seductive idea of a plantimal suddenly brings into focus other explanations for the slugs’ verdigris.

From Scientific American Dec. 16, 2013

And there, on a hook, was an old brass clapper, dull and green, with an engraving of a sunrise over a desert half-hidden beneath the crust of verdigris.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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