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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 07:23:38 GMT
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Picture a discussion that someone comes into. The color GREEN is never
mentioned, just verdigris. So the person looks it up.
Tell me how they are going to know whether the color being discussed is a muted
greyish green, or a greenish-something, or a bluish-something, given the
definitions.
The color we are discussing has no blue in it whatsoever that I could tell
seeing it in person, but if you just used the definitions, it COULD.
I like the word verdigris too, but if the name is not obvious without asking
for a clarification of a definition in the dictionary, it's the WRONG word to
use.
Weathered green, aged green, "SOMETHING green" makes the best sense overall.
Paul Davidson wrote:
> Tom Stangl, VFAQman <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message
> news:3A05C764.F18F44FF@vfaq.com...
> > Webster is out of date - patina simply means a weathered and/or • age-darkened finish
> > to antiquers, and can apply to copper, bronze, nickel, wood, etc, etc, • etc.
> >
> > Weathered GREEN would make the most sense, as people would instantly know • it is a
> > shade of GREEN.
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> "Verdigris" is pretty obvious in meaning, I think. You'd have to be
> (almost) illiterate not to make the verdi=green or gris=grey connections.
>
> --
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> Paul Davidson
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