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Blue verditer

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ver⋅di⋅ter

  [vur-di-ter]
–noun
either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer).
Origin:
1495–1505; < MF verd de terre (F vert de terre) green of earth
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