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• terre verte
  terre verte

  noun

  a grayish-green color.
• terre-verte
  terre-verte

  noun

  a greyish-green pigment used in paints, consisting of powdered glauconite

terre verte

American  

[ter vert] / ˈtɛr ˌvɛrt /

noun

1. a grayish-green color.

2. green earth.

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terre-verte British  

/ ˈtɛəˌvɜːt /

noun

1. a greyish-green pigment used in paints, consisting of powdered glauconite

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adjective

1. of a greyish-green colour

Etymology

Origin of terre verte

1650–60; < French: literally, green earth

Example Sentences

His warm grays and brick reds, his low thick blues and his blocks of terre verte, betokened nature, suggesting planes of light on sky and sea, old stone and vegetation.

From Time Magazine Archive

In combination with Indian red and Naples yellow, terre verte forms a series of mild russet greens, of much use in middle distance.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

She has passed out of that mysterious misuse of oil paint, that arid glazing of terre verte, and has come into her possession of eternal life, into the immortality of Pater's prose.

From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)

There should be an underwash of madder, and maybe terre verte.

From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn

Intensities of emerald green, chromous oxide, and terre verte 103 22.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.