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Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:05:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger writes:

seems french to me, and spelled correctly too:

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=verdigris

Verdegris turns up this:

No entry found for "verdegris" in the dictionary.

  Spelled correctly, as you point out, dictionary.com reveals this:

[Middle English vertegrez, from Old French verte grez, alteration of vert-de-
Grice: verd, green; see verdure + de, of (from Latin d); see de- + Grice,
Greece.]

  "Verde" in Spanish, of course, is "green," and "gris" is grey, by the way.

     Dave!



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  Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
 
(...) The "green brass" etymology I mentioned before can be found at (URL) n. [F. vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green + de of + gris gray, but really a corruption of LL. viride aeris (equivalent to L. aerugo), from L. viridis green + (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
 
seems french to me, and spelled correctly too: (URL) turns up this: No entry found for "verdegris" in the dictionary. :) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)

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