vert-de-gris
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French vert de Grece (“green of Greece”), with folk-etymology influence of gris (“grey, gray”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvert-de-gris m (uncountable)
- verdigris (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:vert-de-gris.
Further reading
edit- vert-de-gris on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “vert-de-gris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.