patination
- a word derived from patinate.
Example Sentences
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The streamlined volume of a vase cast in the 1950s or 1960s by Hasegawa Yoshinsha, who died in 2003, is made more dazzling by the mellow brown patination shot through with reddish streaks and splashes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2011
Further, we are by no means well informed as to the value of patination in flints found on the surface in Egypt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
