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Re: which set?
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lugnet.fun
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Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:05:54 GMT
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Wow, I didn't know that verdigris was the word for it. I thought verdigris was
the pearly grey stuff that came out of whales. See Moby Dick, where Herman
Melville writes pages about it and what people will do to get it and what it
feels like and what good is it and on and on...
Anyway: verdigris, Middle English vertegrez, from Old French vert de Grice, lit.
"green of Greece": 1. a : a green or greenish blue poisonous pigment resulting
from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic
copper acetates b: normal copper acetate Cu(C2H3O2)2H2O. 2. a green or bluish
deposit esp. of copper carbonate formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces.
In lugnet.fun, Andy Lynch writes:
> Actually, word is that the bricks are NOT gray, they are a new color that
> approximates verdigris ( the color that copper weathers to, something like a
> greenish gray).
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> -Andy Lynch
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| Ah, yes. It took me a second or two, but that other stuff is called ambergris: Thanks to Merriam-Webster Online (URL) Entry: am·ber·gris Pronunciation: 'am-b&r-"gris, -"grE(s) Function: noun Etymology: Middle English ambregris, from Middle French (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)
| | | Re: which set?
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| (...) lit. (...) I would have called it a "copper Patenia" colour (not sure on the spelling)...but that is what I was brought up with the copper roofs being called. James (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)
| | | Re: which set?
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| (...) lit. (...) I wonder how close the green will actually end up being to weathered copper? If we have to give it a name now, perhaps calling the new LEGO colour "Liberty Green" after the first set it will appear in would be best. -- David (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)
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| | Re: which set?
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| Actually, word is that the bricks are NOT gray, they are a new color that approximates verdigris ( the color that copper weathers to, something like a greenish gray). -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Gray" (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)
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