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

Example Sentences

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verd antique

The baldecchino is supported by four twisted columns formed of small rounded pieces of verd antique closely joined together.

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

Pillars of verd antique stood on either side of the doorway, as if it were the portal of a temple.

From The Puritans by Arlo Bates

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

There is a door framed in verd antique in each end bay of the narthex.

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

On either side of the central door is a window also framed in verd antique, the jambs of the windows being cut from old columns, and retaining the circular form on their faces.

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