verdigris
Example Sentences
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Created in a Roman Bronze finish, its hand-patinated surface has all the timeworn texture and verdigris of its classical counterpart.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing verdigris
Green
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