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Synonyms for verdigris

Grammar : Adj
Spell : vur-di-grees, -gris
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɜr dɪˌgris, -grɪs

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Définition of verdigris

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French verte grez (13c.), verte de Grece (late 12c.), literally "green of Greece," from obsolete French verd, from Latin viridis (see verdure). The reason for it being called that is not known. In chemistry, confined to a basic copper acetate; popularly applied to the green encrustation on copper or brass exposed to the air.
  • As in green : adj emerald in color
Example sentences :
  • It was in the narrow stretch where the Verdigris come close to the Arkansas.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various
  • Verdigris is an acetate of copper, or a mixture of acetates.
  • Extract from : « Poisons: Their Effects and Detection » by Alexander Wynter Blyth
  • The principal exports must be gunny bags, verdigris, and iron rust.
  • Extract from : « Excursions and Poems » by Henry David Thoreau
  • Arsenic and verdigris are sometimes used, but it does not answer.
  • Extract from : « Serge Panine, Complete » by Georges Ohnet
  • The manufacture of verdigris at Montpellier is altogether domestic.
  • Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
  • No verdigris should be allowed to accumulate on any brass fittings.
  • Extract from : « The Gunner's Examiner » by Harold E. Cloke
  • We were all in a doleful state, having been poisoned, I think, with verdigris.
  • Extract from : « Letters to an Unknown » by Prosper Mrime
  • Oxymel of verdigris is stimulant, detergent, and escharotic.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
  • The Creek agent and some of the traders on the Verdigris also rushed to the post for protection.
  • Extract from : « Fort Gibson » by Grant Foreman
  • Verdigris, blue vitriol, and alkalies, turn it more on the blue; whilst a mordant of tin imparts a violet cast.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley

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