verd antique

[ vurd ]

/ vɜrd /

a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.

any of various similar green stones.

Origin of verd antique

1735–45; < French < Italian verde antico literally, antique green. See verdure, antique

The furniture was embellishcd with gorgeous carvings, and enriched with marble, jasper and verd-antique.

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power |John S. C. Abbott
Our astonishment was not lessened when we found it was one solid mass of verd-antique marble.

Pencillings by the Way |N. Parker Willis
The great Plain of Esdraelon lay below us like a vast mosaic of green and brown--jasper and verd-antique.

The Lands of the Saracen |Bayard Taylor
In the boudoirs of the sultanas they were sometimes of verd-antique, and incrusted with lapis-lazuli.

Stories of the Olden Time |Various

Chatterton took great pains to encrust his gold with verd-antique; it requires little to remove the green rubbish from the coin.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. |Various

verd antique

/ (vɜːd) /

a dark green mottled impure variety of serpentine marble

any of various similar marbles or stones

another name for verdigris

C18: from French, from Italian verde antico ancient green