Definition of "verditer" []

• Either of two basic carbonates of copper, used as a blue or green pigment. (noun)

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• "_Green Bice_, or Green Verditer, is the same in substance as blue verditer, which is converted into green verditer by boiling."
• "The plumage of this flycatcher is pale blue -- blue of that peculiar shade known as verditer blue."
• "_ -- The ancient blues were very numerous; the principal of these was cœruleum, azure, a species of verditer, or blue carbonate of copper, of which there were many varieties."