Definitions for verd-antique

verd-antique verd antique

Spelling: [vurd]
IPA: /vɜrd/

Verd-Antique is a 12 letter English word.

You can make 803 anagrams from letters in verd-antique (-adeeinqrtuv).

Definitions for verd-antique

noun

  1. a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.
  2. any of various similar green stones.

Origin of verd-antique

1735-45; French Italian verde antico literally, antique green. See verdure, antique

Examples for verd-antique

It is engraved here about two-thirds of the size of the original, which was thickly encrusted with verd antique when discovered.

verd antique marble is really a modified Egyptian, being somewhat more blotchy than its cousin the Egyptian green marble.

Mrs. Hastings swayed toward the prince in her chair of verd antique, and her voice seemed to become brittle in the air.

The baldecchino is supported by four twisted columns formed of small rounded pieces of verd antique closely joined together.

This marble is probably but a variation of the verd antique, which it closely resembles in all its colorings.

Here may be seen columns of verd antique, porphyry and valuable marbles, built longwise into the thickness of the wall.

The columns of the whole church on the ground floor are of porphyry, and on the upper storey of verd antique.

The head and the feet are of black touchstone; the body is sheathed, and made of verd antique marble, rayed with white.

It measures nearly seven inches in length, by one and a half inch in greatest breadth, and is covered with verd antique.

In the boudoirs of the sultanas they were sometimes of verd antique, and incrusted with lapis lazuli.

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