verdigris

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Unlike their Black counterparts in Mr. Appah’s more realistic portraits, these dreamscapes’ inhabitants are mostly greenish-blue, like the verdigris of weathered bronze.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

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

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

From The New Yorker • May 30, 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

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