verditer

[vur-di-ter]

noun

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

Origin of verditer

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

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Examples from the Web for verditer

Historical Examples of verditer

The plumage of this flycatcher is pale blue—blue of that peculiar shade known as verditer blue.
Birds of the Indian Hills
Douglas Dewar
Verditer is made into crayons whilst moist, or dried into a powder, or it is used as a water colour in the moist state.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley
Authorities state that these may be formed from bright Prussian blue or verditer glazed over with Prussian blue or of smalt.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition
William N. Brown