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Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct
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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:03:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler writes:
> Spelled correctly, as you point out, dictionary.com reveals this:
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> [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.]
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> "Verde" in Spanish, of course, is "green," and "gris" is grey, by the way.
The "green brass" etymology I mentioned before can be found at
http://ftp.gts.cz/kam/FTP/pub/gnu/packages/dictionary/cide.v
Ver"di*gris 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 + aes, aeris, brass.
How could anyone not remember the name after this discussion? :-)
Doug
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| (...) By not being a part of it. The main reason that I think that verdigris is a bad choice is that newcomers will have no idea what color that refers to. Before this discussion, if someone had refered to a "verdigris brick", I wouldn't know if (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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