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🎨 A paint pigment 🟩 A bright color
chrome green

chrome green

7.3
A bright green color made by mixing yellow and blue used in paint and ink
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : verde cromo
  • Some industrial coatings use chrome green because of its durability and vivid hue.

Examples

  • Classic British locomotives were often painted in a deep chrome green color.

  • The artist used chrome green for the landscape.

  • The artist mixed chrome green with other pigments to achieve the perfect shade for the landscape.

  • Many painters prefer chrome green for its richness.

  • The artist used chrome green to create a vibrant landscape in her latest painting.

  • For the mural, they decided to mix chrome green with other colors to achieve the desired depth.

  • The chrome green pigment added a rich tone to the inks used for printing the posters.

Synonyms

Windsor green
vschrome green
  • Specialized
9.0

A bright light green used as a paint colour

is made by mixing two pigments rather than being a single metal compound

Surface Forms

chrome green singular
chrome greens plural

Morphology

chrome + green

The phrase directly combines 'chrome' (a chromium-based pigment/compound) with 'green', so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a green color or pigment made with chromium. This is a straightforward color-noun compound found cross-linguistically (e.g., verde cromo/vert de chrome), making the meaning immediately compositional and transparent.

Etymology

Chrome green comes from the metal chrome and early paintmaking. Painters mixed a yellow made with chrome and a blue made from iron to make a strong green, so the name came to mean the 'green' pigment used in paints.