verdigris

Example Sentences

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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

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

They came to the verdigris lions and the large concrete letters: Z-O-O.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

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