verd antique

or verde antique

[ vurd ]

noun

1. a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.
2. any of various similar green stones.

verd antique

/ vɜːd /

noun

1. a dark green mottled impure variety of serpentine marble
2. any of various similar marbles or stones
3. another name for verdigris

Word History and Origins

Origin of verd antique¹

1735–45; < French < Italian verde antico literally, antique green. See verdure, antique

Word History and Origins

Origin of verd antique¹

C18: from French, from Italian verde antico ancient green

Example Sentences

We found it a basilica, its sides divided by square piers, and the whole interior, piers and walls, covered with a damasked pattern wrought in verd antique upon a ground of white marble.

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It is of two kinds, the red and the green,—they are, indeed, frequently found intermixed,—the former somewhat resembling porphyry, and the latter verd antique.

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The columns of the whole church on the ground floor are of porphyry, and on the upper storey of verd antique.

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Those are bits of the precious verd antique.

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They are of verd antique and larger than the other columns in this story of the church, and have sunk crosses in them.

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