verditer

[ vur-di-ter ]

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

Origin of verditer

1
1495–1505; <Middle French verd de terre (French vert de terre) green of earth

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