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

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

Ground smalts, blue verditer, and other pigments, have passed under the name of bice.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

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

Verditer, ver′di-tėr, n. a light-blue pigment, essentially a hydrated cupric carbonate—Green verditer is the blue pigment changed to green by boiling.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The plumage of this flycatcher is pale blue—blue of that peculiar shade known as verditer blue.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas