verd antique

American  

[vurd] / vɜrd /

Or verde antique

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.

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verd antique British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of verd antique

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

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Example Sentences

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verd antique

Five doors lead to the esonarthex—the three central doors being framed in red marble, the other two in verd antique.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

Mrs. Hastings swayed toward the prince in her chair of verd antique, and her voice seemed to become brittle in the air.

From Romance Island by Zona Gale

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.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

The ante-chancel is paved with blocks of red Griote and verd antique.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

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.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

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