Verdigris
WordNet
noun
(1) 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
(2) A blue or green powder used as a paint pigment
verb
(3) Color verdigris
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A blue-green powder, copper acetate, that forms as a patina on copper, brass or bronze that has weathered; also used as a paint pigment.
- The colour of this material.
Quotations
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 13
- Let's to the museum. Cannon-balls, arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.