Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with a patina: patinated.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
patine .
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Examples
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Tanaka Gin used a key to open the patined bronze door, in the process stripping off three lines of bright orange police tape.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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It was of iron, patined rather than rusted, Lombard in form, and of evident antiquity.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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The night had fallen black, but the cabin windows were marvellously patined by stars.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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Looking up you saw at an immense distance above a pale green roof patined with sparkling and flashing points of light, where the breeze was busy playing with the green fronds of the trees.
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