palombino

English

Noun

palombino (uncountable)

  1. A variety of marble.
    • 1882, Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), In Maremma (volume 3, page 154)
      Without awaking him she went away and climbed again into the upper air; and there, where the marucca and myrtle made a shadow above the place of the tombs, she sat down on a block of palombino, stunned and dumb.
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