verditer

American  

[vur-di-ter] / ˈvɜr dɪ tər /

noun

1. either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite blue verditer or malachite green verditer.

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Etymology

Origin of verditer

1495–1505; < Middle French verd de terre ( French vert de terre ) green of earth

Example Sentences

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verditer

Copper carbonate is also the basis of the valuable blue to green pigments verditer, Bremen blue and Bremen green.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Green.—Verdigris, green verditer, and mixtures of blue and yellow.

From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by Ford, J. Sawtelle

Authorities state that these may be formed from bright Prussian blue or verditer glazed over with Prussian blue or of smalt.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by Brown, William N.

Another.—Blue verditer, and white of any sort, well ground.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

Their places are taken by the blue-magpies, the beautiful verditer flycatcher, the Himalayan and the black-headed jays, the black bulbul, and tits of several species.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas