Vocabulary Word
Word: verdigris
Definition: green coating or patina on copper which has been exposed to the weather
Definition: green coating or patina on copper which has been exposed to the weather
Sentences Containing 'verdigris'
The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.
Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes.
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.
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