Definitions for verdigris

verdigris ver·di·gris

Spelling: [vur-di-grees, -gris]
IPA: /ˈvɜr dɪˌgris, -grɪs/

Verdigris is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in verdigris (degiirrsv).

Definitions for verdigris

noun

  1. a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.

Origin of verdigris

1250-1300; Middle French vert de gris; replacing Middle English vertegrez Anglo-French vert de Grece, Old French vere grez green of Greece

Examples for verdigris

It was in the narrow stretch where the verdigris come close to the Arkansas.

The Creek agent and some of the traders on the verdigris also rushed to the post for protection.

verdigris is an acetate of copper, or a mixture of acetates.

verdigris, blue vitriol, and alkalies, turn it more on the blue; whilst a mordant of tin imparts a violet cast.

We were all in a doleful state, having been poisoned, I think, with verdigris.

Arsenic and verdigris are sometimes used, but it does not answer.

Oxymel of verdigris is stimulant, detergent, and escharotic.

The principal exports must be gunny bags, verdigris, and iron rust.

The manufacture of verdigris at Montpellier is altogether domestic.

No verdigris should be allowed to accumulate on any brass fittings.

Word Value for verdigris
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