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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 16:57:26 GMT
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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.
:)
Kevin Zwicker wrote:
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> In lugnet.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
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> > I don't speak Fench, but verdigris sounds like gray-green to me. (Well,
> > green-gray, actually). IMO, gray-green is fairly descriptive and easy to
> > remember.
> > --Bram
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> I speak French, I am pretty sure the word isn't originally French. My guess
> would be Italian. Also I believe the spelling is: verdegris. I may be wrong.
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> Kev Z
> 142
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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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