verdigris

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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

He wiped the verdigris from the plate at the base.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy