patina

Converse of object

• acquire: Our tools acquire a slight brown patina over time, that is all.
• enhance: This will encourage a hard skin to form which enhances the patina.
• develop: In time platinum develops a natural patina that many people prefer over the 'just polished ' look.
• age: The table has been hand made in England and tastefully antiquated and distressed to give a wonderful aged patina.
• give: The wood has been supplied by James Latham and Co from a sustainable source and has been weathered to give a silvery patina.
• have: Newly sanded wood is shown on the left whilst the right hand side still has a weathered patina showing up black.

Preposition: over

%: There is a cream patina over 100 % of the surface.

Adjective modifier

• rich: Hard lines seem softened by the rich blue patina, evenly applied in soft patches.
• brown: Our tools acquire a slight brown patina over time, that is all.
• dark: This standing male figure is an ancestor figure made from wood of a dark patina.
• beautiful: The lunch counter is wooden, with a beautiful patina of age.
• green: The vessel is covered in a light green patina due to bronze disease.
• natural: The rich, natural patina brings out the grain of the.. .

Modifies a noun

• finish: Made from solid wood and decorated with a patina effect finish in white, this headboard will grace your bedroom for years to come.
• effect: Together with the patina effect color wash it convincingly creates the appearance of a true bronze casting.

Noun used with modifier

• cream: There is a cream patina over 100 % of the surface.
• desert: Some of them have no patina and are very fresh, whereas others have the typical brown-black desert patina.

Preposition: of

• age: The lunch counter is wooden, with a beautiful patina of age.
• respectability: Society demands, however, that we hide this nature under a patina of respectability.
• time: Yes the cost would be prohibitive but it would last forever and the patina of time would age the leather beautifully.