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  • n  a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment
  • 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
  • v  color verdigris

  • Copper and brass bowls, candlelabras, ashtrays, spent the seven months covering themselves with verdigris.
  • The currents disintegrate the metals, producing oxides and carbonatesiron rust, verdigris, tarnish, "bronze disease.
  • Slowly the twelve gathered green patinas of verdigris, cracked; the clappers rusted, the machinery clogged.

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