▪ I. ‖ patine, n.
(pəˈtiːn)
[F. patine.]
= patina 2.
| 1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Feb. 388/2 Like an old bronze with a most valuable ‘patine’ on the surface. 1910 G. B. Shaw Let 18 Sept. (1972) II. 942 Back in the dark [in a rowing-boat], without compass,..49 strokes to the minute striking patines of white fire from the Atlantic. 1940 Harper's Mag. Nov. 566 Her [sc. a pilgrim hawk's] back was an indefinable hue of iron; only a slight patine of the ruddiness of youth still shone on it. 1966 M. M. Pegler Dict. Interior Design (1967) 326 Patina or Patine, a greenish coating on the surface of old bronze. |
▪ II. patine, v.
(pæˈtiːn)
[f. patine n.]
trans. To coat or cover with a patina (sense 2). Also fig. Hence paˈtining vbl. n.
| 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. v. 84 Many [flints] have been deeply patined and rusted sometimes even right through. 1936 L. P. Smith Reperusals & Re-Collections i. 2 Time and history adds to their significance; it patines and mellows them. 1947 J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpture vii. 200 Brass can be patined in several colors. Ibid. 209 Iron and steel can be patined a blue-black by the application of a hot solution composed of 10 grains of sodium thiosulphate to each ounce of water. Ibid. 403/2 (Index), Chemical methods of patining bronze. |
▪ III. patine
var. of paten; obs. form of patten.