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

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

Cloud Colour.—Light masticot, or lake and white, shaded with blue verditer.

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

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

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

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