Definition of "verdigris-green" [verdigris-green]

• A green color imparted to the lead glaze of common earthenware by the use of verdigris, as in the tulip ware of the old Pennsylvania-German potters. (noun)
• A bright, very bluish green. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "During the years 1843 – 44 my regiment, almost all Hindu Sepoys of the Bombay Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Ghárrá,405 a sandy flat with a scatter of verdigris-green milk-bush some forty miles north of"
• "The modifiers refer to familiar or common objects (sky-blue, milk-white), to familiar metals (silver-white, gold-yellow) or to coloring materials (indigo-blue, verdigris-green)."
• "Compact malachite, for example, is a color between verdigris-green and grass-green."