单词 | verd-antique |
释义 | verd-antiquen. 1. a. An ornamental variety of marble, consisting chiefly of serpentine mixed with calcite and dolomite. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > marble > made of serpentine, calcite and dolomite verd-antique1745 verde antico1753 ophiolite1824 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > serpentine ophitesa1398 serpentine1426 ophite1592 serpentine marble1601 serpentine stone1662 viper-stone1741 verd-antique1745 verde antico1753 serpent-stone1757 ophiolite1824 ophicalcite1866 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. 193 The hills of Antioch are part of them of a crumbling stone, like verd antique. 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 109 Columns of verd' antique and oriental alabaster. 1806 J. Pinkerton Recoll. Paris II. 139 Egyptian breccia..has been mistaken for the serpentine-marble, called verd antique. 1838 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. vii. 32 I should like to see the walls of St. Paul's incrusted with porphyry and verde antique. 1884 Mag. of Art Apr. 226/1 Its design must have been made entirely to suit the twelve columns of verd-antique which surround its walls. b. oriental verd-antique, green porphyry. Occasionally without adjective. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > porphyrite rock > varieties of red rock1721 oriental verd-antique1852 kersanton1862 kersantite1868 uralite-porphyry1868 monchiquite1891 vogesite1891 camptonite1895 hedrumite1896 wyomingite1897 spessartite1908 rhyodacite1913 rhyolite1932 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > porphyry > green oriental verd-antique1852 1852 E. Barber Painters' Assist. 75 To imitate Oriental Verdantique Marble. 1857 J. D. Dana Min. (1862) 356 Green porphyry is the oriental verd antique of the ancients, and was held in high esteem. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks xii. 240 The verde-antique porphyry is one of the diabase-porphyrites. 2. A green incrustation on brass or copper; verdigris. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > verdigris verdigris1300 green brassa1398 Spanish green1611 aerugo1664 verdigris water1668 verd-antiquea1835 a1835 F. D. Hemans Last Wasp Scot. in Poems (1849) 523 Never may housemaid wipe the verd antique From coin of thine. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. v. 447 Another example.., covered with verd antique, is a light and beautiful bracelet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1745 |
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