verdigris

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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

The green-pigmented verdigris paint and hand-drawn, individually stenciled wallpaper with a flower pattern in pinks, yellows, and blues dates to the Turners.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

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

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

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