verditer

[ vur-di-ter ]

noun

1. either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite blue verditer or malachite green verditer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of verditer¹

1495–1505; < Middle French verd de terre ( French vert de terre ) green of earth

Example Sentences

To restore the decorative surfaces of buildings such as Strawberry Hill House, the English Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham built by Horace Walpole in the mid-1700s, or an 18th-century townhouse for the artists Gilbert and George in Spitalfields, London, he employs obscure hues like blue verditer, first concocted in the 17th century.

From New York Times

Verditer, ver′di-tėr, n. a light-blue pigment, essentially a hydrated cupric carbonate—Green verditer is the blue pigment changed to green by boiling.

From Project Gutenberg

Green.—Verdigris, green verditer, and mixtures of blue and yellow.

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Verdigris and green verditer also give greens.

From Project Gutenberg

Copper carbonate is also the basis of the valuable blue to green pigments verditer, Bremen blue and Bremen green.

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