Bice

For other U.S. government agency, see BICE.

For the woman knows as Bice featured in the poems of Dante Alighieri, see Beatrice Portinari.

Bice (from Fr. bis, a word of doubtful origin, meaning dark-coloured), a term erroneously applied in English to particular shades of green or blue pigments from the French terms vert bis and azur bis, dark green or blue. These colours are generally prepared from basic copper carbonates, but sometimes from ultramarine and other pigments.

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.