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

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.

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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.

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The columns of the whole church on the ground floor are of porphyry, and on the upper storey of verd antique.

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Those are bits of the precious verd antique.

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In the latter they are of verd antique, and are finely carved on both sides.

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