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

The latter is the most beautiful church I ever saw, the whole of it adorned with white marble inlaid with verd antique in a regular pattern.

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

Mrs. Hastings swayed toward the prince in her chair of verd antique, and her voice seemed to become brittle in the air.

From Romance Island by Gale, Zona

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

From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo

The interior of the church, now almost a total ruin, was divided into nave and two aisles by colonnades of seven columns of verd antique marble.

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

It is of two kinds, the red and the green,—they are, indeed, frequently found intermixed,—the former somewhat resembling porphyry, and the latter verd antique.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various