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verdegris

verdegris is the alternative form of verdigris.

Meaning of verdigris

Noun

verdigris (countable and uncountable, plural verdigrises)

  1. A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    aerugo, green brass
  2. (dated) Copper acetate.
    Synonyms:
    Spanish green
  3. 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...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]...
    Synonyms:
    Spanish green

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Questions about verdegris

What is verdegris the alternative form of?
Verdegris is the alternative form of verdigris.

Words near verdegris in the dictionary

  1. Verde Mary
  2. Verde Marys
  3. Verdecia
  4. Verdecias
  5. verded
  6. verdegris
  7. verdejo
  8. verdejos
  9. Verdelho
  10. Verdelhos
  11. verdelite

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