verditer
English edit
Etymology edit
French vert-de-terre, literally "green of earth".
Noun edit
verditer (countable and uncountable, plural verditers)
- (obsolete) verdigris
- (obsolete) Either of two pigments (blue verditer and green verditer) made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “verditer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)