Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two basic carbonates of copper, used as a blue or green pigment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to two pigments, one green, the other blue, prepared by decomposing copper nitrate with chalk or quicklime. See
green and blue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Verdigris.
- noun Either one of two pigments (called
blue verditer , andgreen verditer ) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. - noun a pale greenish blue color, like that of the pigment verditer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
verdigris - noun obsolete Either of two
pigments (blue verditer and green verditer) made by treatingcopper nitrate withcalcium carbonate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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_Green Bice_, or Green Verditer, is the same in substance as blue verditer, which is converted into green verditer by boiling.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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The plumage of this flycatcher is pale blue -- blue of that peculiar shade known as verditer blue.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Neither is durable, especially in oil; and, as pigments, both are precisely of the character of verditer.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Another method is by first painting the article, after it has been rendered nonabsorbent, of a dark color made of Prussian blue, yellow ochre, and verditer, ground in oil.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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The first is a blue mineral found near copper mines, while the last is simply a verditer.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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It is prepared from malachite, a beautiful copper ore employed by jewellers, and is a hydrated dicarbonate of copper, combined with a white earth, and often striated with veins of mountain blue, to which it bears the same relation that green verditer bears to blue verditer.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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_ -- Chrysocolla, which appears to have been green carbonate of copper, or malachite (green verditer), was the green most approved of by the ancients; there was also an artificial kind which was made from clay impregnated with sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) rendered green by a yellow dye.
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Authorities state that these may be formed from bright Prussian blue or verditer glazed over with Prussian blue or of smalt.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown
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_ -- The ancient blues were very numerous; the principal of these was cœruleum, azure, a species of verditer, or blue carbonate of copper, of which there were many varieties.
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Prussian blue possibly a genuine Prussian blue toned down to a sky blue with white lead is meant, and by verditer the variety known as refiners 'blue verditer, and as to smalt it must not be forgotten that it changes its colour in artificial light.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown
fbharjo commented on the word verditer
coppertone
September 29, 2007
vendingmachine commented on the word verditer
The blue-green rustlike discoloration of copper and brass.
June 22, 2015