verdigris
- 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.