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‖ verd-antique, verd antique|ˌvɜːd ænˈtiːk|
Also 9 verde-.
[Older F. (now vert antique), ‘antique green’. Cf. verde antico.]
1. An ornamental variety of marble, consisting chiefly of serpentine mixed with calcite and dolomite.
1745Pococke Descr. East II. i. 193 The hills of Antioch are part of them of a crumbling stone, like verd antique. 1755Phil. Trans. XLIX. 109 Columns of verd' antique and oriental alabaster. 1806J. Pinkerton Recollect. Paris II. 139 Egyptian breccia..has been mistaken for the serpentine-marble, called verd antique. 1838Macaulay in Trevelyan Life vii. (1876) II. 32, I should like to see the walls of St. Paul's incrusted with porphyry and verde antique. 1884Mag. Art Apr. 226/1 Its design must have been made entirely to suit the twelve columns of verd-antique which surround its walls.
attrib.1828Lights & Shades II. 282 A verd-antique pitcher with an ear. 1857Dana Min. (1862) 147 Serpentine forms a handsome marble when polished, especially when mixed with limestone, constituting verd-antique marble.
b. oriental verd-antique, green porphyry. Occasionally without adj. Also attrib.
1852E. Barber Painters' (etc.) Assist. 75 To imitate Oriental Verdantique Marble. 1857Dana Min. (1862) 356 Green porphyry is the oriental verd antique of the ancients, and was held in high esteem. 1879Rutley Stud. Rocks xii. 240 The verde-antique porphyry is one of the diabase-porphyrites.
2. A green incrustation on brass or copper; verdigris.
a1835Mrs. Hemans Last Wasp Scot. Poems (1849) 523 Never may housemaid wipe the verd antique From coin of thine. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. iii. v. 447 Another example.., covered with verd antique, is a light beautiful bracelet. |