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Re: which set?
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Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:38:37 GMT
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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 http://www.m-w.com
Main Entry: am·ber·gris
Pronunciation: 'am-b&r-"gris, -"grE(s)
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ambregris, from Middle French ambre gris, from ambre
+ gris gray -- more at GRIZZLE
Date: 15th century
: a waxy substance found floating in or on the shores of tropical waters,
believed to originate in the intestines of the sperm whale, and used in
perfumery as a fixative
-Andy Lynch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net>
To: <lugnet.fun@lugnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: which set?
> 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...
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> 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).
> >
> > -Andy Lynch
> >
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