Verdigris

Quick meaning: Verdigris is a noun meaning A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.

Meaning

A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.

More Meanings

1. (organic chemistry, dated) Copper acetate.
2. The color of this patina or material.
3. (transitive) To cover, or coat, with verdigris.

Example Sentences

Let's to^([sic]) the museum. Cannon-balls; arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.

[…] there were always some wretched musicians, with an old fiddle, an old clarinet, and an old verdigrised brass bugle[…]

The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper.

[…]there were three small brass coins there, the gift of Ymar. Their legends, like their faces, had worn away; and they were dark with verdigris — in appearance precisely the ancient things they were.

Word Forms

• verdigrises
• verdigrising
• verdigrised

Synonyms for verdigris

Depending on context, synonyms include aerugo, patina.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include patina, verdegris, aerugo, verditer, viridian, tarnish.

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