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Verdigris

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Ver·di·gris  (vûrd-grs)
A river, about 451 km (280 mi) long, of southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma flowing generally southward to the Arkansas River.

ver·di·gris  (vûrd-grs, -grs, -gr)
n.
1. A blue or green powder consisting of basic cupric acetate used as a paint pigment and fungicide.
2. A green patina or crust of copper sulfate or copper chloride formed on copper, brass, and bronze exposed to air or seawater for long periods of time.

[Middle English vertegrez, from Old French verte grez, alteration of vert-de-Grice : verd, green; see verdant + de, of (from Latin d; see de-) + Grice, Greece.]

verdigris [ˈvɜːdɪgrɪs]
n
1. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze and consisting of a basic salt of copper containing both copper oxide and a copper salt
2. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a green or blue crystalline substance obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper and used as a fungicide and pigment; basic copper acetate
[from Old French vert de Grice green of Greece]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.verdigris - a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment
pigment - dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
2.verdigris - a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time
patina - a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal
Verb1.verdigris - color verdigris
color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
Translations
verdigris [ˈvɜːdɪgriːs] Nverdete m, cardenillo m
verdigris
nGrünspan m
adj metal, copper, bronzemit Grünspan bedeckt; finish, effectgrünspanig
verdigris [ˈvɜːdɪgrɪs] nverderame m
verdigris [ˈvɜːdɪgrɪs] nverderame m


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The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.
With the point of his cutlass Snider scraped the dirt and verdigris from the face of the larger ornament.
Clips and empty cartridges, tarnished with verdigris, lay on the ground, which, while wet, had been torn up by the hoofs of horses.
 
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