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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

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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

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 Thomas Salter

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 Thomas Salter

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 Thomas Salter

Rubens has availed himself much of terre verte, not in his landscapes merely, but likewise in the carnation tints in his figures of a dead Christ.

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

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