verdigris
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And over time, copper develops a patina, that verdigris color you may or may not like.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022
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
At Cahn, you can become lost amid smaller Greek prizes, like an Attic cup painted with vigorous wrestlers, or a bronze Corinthian helmet covered with verdigris.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2017
The witch-queen, oldest of the Lilim, reined in the horses beside a pinnacle of rock the color of verdigris, which jutted from the marshy soil of the Barrens like a needle.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing verdigris
Green
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