verd antique

American  

[vurd] / vɜrd /

Or verde antique

noun

1. a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.

2. any of various similar green stones.

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verd antique British  

/ vɜːd /

noun

1. a dark green mottled impure variety of serpentine marble

2. any of various similar marbles or stones

3. another name for verdigris

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Etymology

Origin of verd antique

1735–45; < French < Italian verde antico literally, antique green. See verdure, antique

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Example Sentences

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verd antique

Its supporting columns are of Languedoc marble clustered with smaller ones of Sienna and verd antique.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

We found it a basilica, its sides divided by square piers, and the whole interior, piers and walls, covered with a damasked pattern wrought in verd antique upon a ground of white marble.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

Large pieces of porphyry and verd antique eternally trodden by the Trasteverine mob, and never even cleaned.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve

They are of verd antique and larger than the other columns in this story of the church, and have sunk crosses in them.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

This party consisted of some of the authorities of the city and some porters, bearing on a slab of verd antique a magnificent cinerary vase, that was about to be placed in the Campo.

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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