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

Those are bits of the precious verd antique.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

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

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

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

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