verdigris

Example Sentences

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Created in a Roman Bronze finish, its hand-patinated surface has all the timeworn texture and verdigris of its classical counterpart.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

Still, the show had some great one-off moments - including one from model, Gigi Hadid, who closed the show in a verdigris pant-look speckled with matching diaphanous embroidered feathers.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2019

They came to the verdigris lions and the large concrete letters: Z-O-O.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

Setting aside the seductive idea of a plantimal suddenly brings into focus other explanations for the slugs’ verdigris.

From Scientific American • Dec. 16, 2013

And there, on a hook, was an old brass clapper, dull and green, with an engraving of a sunrise over a desert half-hidden beneath the crust of verdigris.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee