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Covered or coated with a green or bluish deposit of copper (patina).

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Usage examples (7)
  • Once again he rested the verdigrised copper of his helmet against the no-longer-quite-so-brightly-gleaming metal of the capsule.
  • The bathroom was a dark den with leprous walls and a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working.
  • Hair the color of rust whipped around the iron mask that blanked his face, a lamellar hauberk of verdigrised bronze encased his muscled form, and a double strand of...
  • And even though the clothesline is in the middle of the vast roof and the angel is falling straight down, he slips right past the verdigrised cornice as if he were...
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