Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The natural hydrated bicarbonate of copper. Also called
mountain-green . - noun A fine green color, like that of handsome specimens of malachite.
- noun One of the modern artificial dyes, a salt of tetnamethyl-paradiamido-triphenylcarbinol: used in dying silk, wool, and cotton. Also called benzaldehyde green, solid green, and Victoria green.
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Examples
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Reiter and Price note that, overall, the malachite-green elements have retained their color the least well, and they conjecture that this was due to the larger size of the coloring particles needed to create the jade-green shade. 6 Problems created by the choice of binder and medium and by the ability of the coloring material to adhere to the substrate are particularly apparent here.
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Inside, the building was even more splendid than the outside, with wonderful, brilliantly-colored wall paintings of Jousters on their dragons flying above chariots, being led by the Great King Hamunshet, wearing the blue war crown, and mounted on his own malachite-green dragon, driving against the barbarians that had thought to hold Tia.
Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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