Verdigris

Origin

From french vert-de-gris.

Full definition of verdigris

Noun

1. A blue-green patina that forms on copper-containing metals.
• 1922, Virginia Woolf, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 13Let's to the museum. Cannon-balls, arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.
2. (chemistry, dated) Copper acetate.
3. The colour of this patina or material.

Synonyms

• (copper acetate) Spanish green

Verb

1. To cover, or coat, with verdigris.An old verdigrised brass bugle. — Hawthorne.