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

This is properly green verditer, but other preparations are frequently sold under the name.

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Green Verditer is a mixture of oxide and carbonate of copper with chalk.

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

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The beautiful verditer flycatcher (Stoparola melanops) must be familiar to everyone who has visited the Himalayas.

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The plumage of this flycatcher is pale blue—blue of that peculiar shade known as verditer blue.

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