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verdigris
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verdigris \Ver"di*gris\, n. [F. vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green + de of + gris gray, but really a corruption of LL. viride aeris (equivalent to L. aerugo), from L. viridis green + aes, aeris, brass. See Verdant, and 2d Ore.]
(Chem.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.
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The green rust formed on copper. [Colloq.]
Note: This rust is a carbonate of copper, and should not be confounded with true verdigris.
--U. S. Disp.Blue verdigris (Chem.), a verdigris having a blue color, used a pigment, etc.
Distilled verdigris (Old Chem.), an acid copper acetate; -- so called because the acetic acid used in making it was obtained from distilled vinegar.
Verdigris green, clear bluish green, the color of verdigris.
Verdigris \Ver"di*gris\, v. t.
To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [R.] ``An old verdigrised
brass bugle.''
--Hawthorne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, vertegrez, 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 other languages, "green of Spain" (German grünspan, Danish spanskgrönt, Dutch spaansch-groen), from Medieval Latin viride Hispanum. Current spelling in English is from 1789. In chemistry, confined to a basic copper acetate; popularly applied to the green encrustation on copper or brass exposed to the air.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A blue-green patina that forms on copper-containing metals. 2 (context chemistry dated English) copper acetate. 3 The colour of this patina or material. vb. To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
WordNet
n. a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment [syn: cupric acetate]
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
v. color verdigris
Wikipedia
Verdigris is the common name for a green pigment obtained through the application of acetic acid to copper plates or the natural patina formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time. It is usually a basic copper carbonate, but near the sea will be a basic copper chloride. If acetic acid is present at the time of weathering, it may consist of copper(II) acetate.
Verdigris is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Magrs and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Third Doctor, Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme.
Verdigris is a common term for copper(II) acetate, the green patina that forms on copper, brass and bronze, and which is used as a pigment.
Verdigris may also refer to:
- Verdigris, Oklahoma
- Verdigris (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
- Verdigris, a play by Jim Beaver
- Verdigris agaric, common name for the fungus Stropharia aeruginosa
Usage examples of "verdigris".
Headboard and footboard were shaped from twisting vines of wrought bronze that had been permitted to verdigris to a soft green.
In its sepia light, under warpaint of verdigris and climbing plants, plaques pointing to the mess and the heads and boiler rooms could still be read.
Squat and enormous and coated with rust and verdigris, long-forgotten appliances for unknown purposes, their pistons seized by age and salt.
Below this figurehead, level with the waterline, a long, viciously pointed bronze ram, green with verdigris and spotted with barnacles, cut through the waves.
First Church of Verdigris emerged from the bathroom, wrapped in an emerald-green robe, she found herself face to face with Gosma while Mimosa was strategically placed at the only other door.
Temple of Verdigris and then spread, on huge posters, all over the city, the state, the country.
Now she heard the Indian war whoops when the Indians were dancing their war dances all through the horrible nights by the Verdigris River.
A fine gold lace banded the neckline, shoulders, and back, and a verdigris sash swept diagonally across the bodice.
As she moved, he noted the set of her bare shoulders and the curve of her trim waist encircled by a verdigris sash.
She concentrated very hard on a verdigris sundial situated in the center of the garden.
The restless, low-hanging clouds had a sickly glow, like verdigris on brass.
And verdigris, and-- PURGANAX: Honourable Swine, In Piggish souls can prepossessions reign?
The emplacement, extending along the eastern bank of the main watercourse, is marked by a number of mounds scattered over with broken glass and pottery of all kinds: no coins were found, but rude bits of metal, all verdigris, were picked up north of the palm-orchard.
And the clouds were the color of verdigris, so that the heavy light that poured down through them was tinged with a poisonous, greenjyellow color.
And though now nailed amidst all the rustiness of iron bolts and the verdigris of copper spikes, yet, untouchable and immaculate to any foulness, it still preserved its Quito glow.