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n. See paten.

n. A thin greenish layer, usually basic copper sulfate, that forms on copper or copper alloys, such as bronze, as a result of corrosion.

n. The sheen on any surface, produced by age and use.

n. A change in appearance produced by long-standing behavior, practice, or use: a face etched with a patina of fine lines and tiny wrinkles.

n. A paten, flat type of dish

n. The color or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.

n. A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.

n. A gloss or superficial layer.

adj. Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.

n. A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

n. The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.

n. A bowl; a patella.

n. An incrustation which forms on bronze after a certain amount of exposure to the weather, or after burial beneath the ground.

n. By extension, the surface-texture or -color which other works of decorative art, as a wooden cabinet or the like, gain through the action of time.

n. The surface, produced partly by accretion, partly by discoloration and the effects of acid in the soil, given to marble by long inhumation.

n. [capitalized] [NL.] In conch., a genus of gastropods.

n. a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal

"You have been taught that to scratch the surface will shatter the wafer thin patina of the nose-ring Karl leads you around with."

verdigris    Colours   

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Albertina    Albina    Alina    Altadena    Angelina    Argentina    Athena    Burkina    Cartagena    Catalina   

veneer    smear    sheen    powdering    smudge    varnish    speck