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Re: Color name for Statue of Liberty Sculpture #3450
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lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:19:19 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm^AntiSpam^.org
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Erik Olson <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote:
> But this Grece story is debatable, despite being reported in common
> dictionaries.
Like the OED.
verdigris v@+-Rdigris. Forms: &ia.; 4 century verdegrez, 4-6 century
-gres(e, 5 century -greys, 7 century -gresse, -griese, 7-8 century -grease;
5-6 century verdegrece, 6-7 century -greace, 7-8 century -greece; 6-9
century verdigrease, 6 century -grese, 6-8 century -greese (7 century
verdie-), 6 century verdigrece, 7 century -greace, -greece; 6 century
verdygresse, -grace, 7 century virdigreace, -greese. &ib.; 4 century
vertegrez, 5-6 century -grece (5 century vertagrece, 6 century
verthigreace), 5 century vertgrez, -grees, 6 century -grese, -gresse, 7
century -greece. &ig.; 5 century vert de grece, 7 century vertdegrease.
&id.; 6 century , 8-9 century verdegris (6 century verddegris), 7-9 century
verdigrise, 8- century verdigris. &ie.; 6 century vargrasse, vergres(se
(wer-), vergrys, Sc. vern-, varngris. a. AFr. and OFr. vert de Grece (C.
1170), OFr. verte grez (13th c.), vert de grice (1314), vert-de-gris (15th
c.; also mod.Fr.), lit. `green of Greece': see vert sb.1 Cf. med.L. viride
grecum (14-15th c.). The terminal syllable at an early date was no longer
understood and hence underwent various corruptions of spelling and
pronunciation.
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