Noun: vert-de-gris
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Le vert-de-gris est la rouille du cuivre. (Verdigris is copper rust.)
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:vert-de-gris.
Nouns inflected like vert-de-gris
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French vert de Grece (“green of Greece”), with folk-etymology influence of gris (“grey, gray”).
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