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noun, masculine

vert-de-gris

/vɛʁ.də.ɡʁi/

noun, masculine/vɛʁ.də.ɡʁi/

verdigris (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys)

Le vert-de-gris est la rouille du cuivre.Verdigris is copper rust.

Inherited from Old French vert de Grece (“green of Greece”), with folk-etymology influence of gris (“grey, gray”).