OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29343

verdigris

/ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹis/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cardenillo
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.
[…]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 ancie…
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