terre verte
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of terre verte
1650–60; < French: literally, green earth
Example Sentences
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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
Intensities of emerald green, chromous oxide, and terre verte 103 22.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
We have obtained a very beautiful olive from terre verte by simply changing its hue.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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)
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