Verdigris

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A blue or green powder consisting of basic cupric acetate used as a paint pigment and fungicide.
  • n. A green patina or crust of copper sulfate or copper chloride formed on copper, brass, and bronze exposed to air or seawater for long periods of time.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A blue-green patina that forms on copper-containing metals.
  • n. Copper acetate.
  • n. The colour of this patina or material.
  • v. To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. The green rust formed on copper.
  • v. To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A substance obtained by exposing plates of copper to the air in contact with acetic acid, and much used as a pigment, as a mordant in dyeing wool black, in calico-printing, and in gilding, in several processes in the chemical arts, and in medicine.
  • To cause to be coated with verdigris; cover or coat with verdigris.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment
  • v. color verdigris
  • n. 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
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    pigment    colour    colourize    colorise    color    color in    colorize    colour in    colourise    patina   
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