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Volterra|vɒlˈtɛrə|
The name of a town in the Tuscany region of Italy, used attrib. to designate alabaster quarried there. Hence also Volˈterran a.
1924D. H. Lawrence in M. Magnus Mem. Foreign Legion 20 So at last coming down to the Mercato Nuovo we saw little bowls of Volterra marble, a natural amber colour, for four francs. a1930― Etruscan Places (1932) vi. 183 Everybody knows Volterra marble—so called—nowadays, because of the translucent bowls of it which hang under the electric lights, as shades, in half the hotels of the world. Ibid., There is no love lost between a Volterran alabaster worker and the lump of pale Volterran earth he turns into pale marketable form. |