Greek Lace. A kind of cutwork, described under Lace (q.v.).
Green, in Christian art, or the emerald, is the colour of spring; emblem of hope, particularly hope in immortality; and of victory, as the colour of the palm and the laurel.
Green. (See Carbonates of Copper, Oxides of Copper, Scheele’s Green, Sap Green, Chrome Green, &c.)
Green Bice. Green cinnabar. (See Chrome Green.)
Green Earth (burnt terra verde) is a brown pigment, very useful for landscape painting in oil colours; it is not affected by exposure to strong light or impure air.
Green Lakes. (See Purple Lakes.)
Green Verditer. (See Verditer.)
Gregorian Calendar. The calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582.
Gregorian Music. A collection of chants, originally compiled by Gregory I. (the Great), A. D. 600. “It was observed by St. Gregory, a great musician of his time, that the Ambrosian Chants, handed down traditionally to a great extent, had become corrupted; he therefore subjected them to revision, and added other modes and scales to those four which Ambrose had retained. This was done by taking away the upper tetrachord from the Ambrosian scales, and placing it below the lower tetrachord.” (See Music, by the Rev. J. R. Lunn, B.D., in Dictionary of Christian Antiquities.)
Grey, in Christian art, the colour of ashes, signified mourning, humility, and innocence accused.