verdigris

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And over time, copper develops a patina, that verdigris color you may or may not like.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2022

Unlike their Black counterparts in Mr. Appah’s more realistic portraits, these dreamscapes’ inhabitants are mostly greenish-blue, like the verdigris of weathered bronze.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

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

There is the copper-arsenite Scheele’s Green, synthesized at the beginning of the nineteenth century and more dazzling than traditional verdigris, the green-blue patina given off by corroded copper.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

Nearby there were three preat pillars covered in green verdigris so thick it looked like noss.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss