verdigris en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹis/ (General-American)
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- /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹɪs/ (General-American)
- /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹi/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Middle English vertegrece, verdegres, from Old French verte grez (literally “acidic green”), an alteration of older verte de Grece (literally “green of Greece”). The modern French writing of this word is vert-de-gris (literally “green of gray”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
[…]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.
1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:Let's to^([sic]) the museum. Cannon-balls; arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.
1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 17:The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper.
2008, Christopher Paolini, “Assault on Helgrind”, in Brisingr, page 44:
- (countable, dated, uncountable) Copper acetate.
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(countable, uncountable) The color of this patina or material.
Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green.
1735, [John Barrow], “GREENS”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.
1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 24, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 242:[…]let them tell me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.
1843, [John Ruskin], chapter 2, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part II (Of Truth), section VI (Of Truth of Vegetation—Conclusion), § 7, page 123:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| verdigrises | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
Synonyms
green brass · Spanish green · aerugo · Spanish green
Translations (85)
pl grynszpan (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ar زِنْجَارِيّ (color) · es cardenillo (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · cs měděnka (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · br mergl-kouevr (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · vi gỉ đồng (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · fi patina (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · vi màu gỉ đồng (color) · bg зеленясване (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pl patyna (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · sv spanskgrönt (color) · nb spanskgrønt (color) · is eirgræna (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · sk medenka (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · cy rhwd copr (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · fr vert-de-gris (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · fo eirdømi (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ru медя́нка (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pt azinhavre (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · it verderame (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · shi taluft (Souss-Massa) (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · wa vert-di-gris (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · hy ժանգառ (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · nb irr (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · hi काई (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · fo eiring (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · tr bakır pası (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · tr jengâr (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · cmn 铜绿 (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ru ярь-медя́нка (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · fi espanjanvihreä (color) · nb eir (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · grc ἰός (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ga glasar (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pt verdete (copper acetate) · hi पितराई (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · eo verdigro (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · tl taeng-tanso (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ca verdet (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · nci quilpālli (color) · ta களிம்பு (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · de Grünspan (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ta துரு (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ca verdet (color) · te కిలము (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · sv ärg (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ckb ژەنگ (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · nb verdigris (color) · scn virdirramu (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · cy rhwd gwyrdd (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pl śniedź (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · fo árdømi (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pl patyna (copper acetate) · nl groenspaan (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · tl taing-tanso (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · hu patina (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pl grynszpan (copper acetate) · ar زِنْجَار (copper acetate) · cy gwyrddlas (color) · io verdigriso (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · is spansgræna (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · hi ज़ंगार (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · sv koppargrönt (color) · ta களிம்பு (copper acetate) · gd meirg-umha (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · vi màu xanh đồng (color) · fa زنگار (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · hu rézrozsda (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · bg патина (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pl grynszpan (color) · grc ἰός χαλκοῦ (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · nn eir (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · is spanskgræna (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ko 녹청 (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · as কঁহ (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · da ir (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pt verdete (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ja 緑青色 (color) · km ច្រែះ (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · hi ताम्रकिट्ट (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · fi kuparinvihreä (color) · la aerūgō (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · ja 緑青 (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · eu gardinga (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys) · pl patyna (color)