terre verte
noun
a grayish-green color.
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terre-vertenouna greyish-green pigment used in paints, consisting of powdered glauconite
terre verte
American
[ter vert]
/ ˈtɛr ˌvɛrt /
terre-verte
British
/ ˈtɛəˌvɜːt /
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of terre verte
1650–60; < French: literally, green earth
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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
There should be an underwash of madder, and maybe terre verte.
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn
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
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)
A citrine brown of great service in tender drab greens, it forms with terre verte and the madder lakes rich autumnal tints of much beauty and permanence.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
In the first place, all dyes must be soluble colours, differing in this respect from pigments; most of which are insoluble, and are only very finely divided, as, e.g., ultramarine, umber, terre-verte.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
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