A natural blue or green pigment made from copper carbonate, historically used in paintings and dyes.
From Dutch bijs or Low German. The word traveled through European languages as a trade term for this valuable pigment in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Old Masters mixed bice into their paints to create those haunting blue skies and green shadows—it's made from the same copper compound that turns the Statue of Liberty green!
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