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wonderstone|ˈwʌndəstəʊn|
[f. wonder n. + stone n.]
1. (See quots.)
1824Trans. Geol. Soc. I. 295 In the neighbourhood of Wells, and at Bleydon near the Bristol Channel, it [sc. the conglomerate] forms a beautiful breccia, called wonder⁓stone, consisting of yellow transparent crystals of carbonate of lime, disseminated equably through a dark-red earthy dolomite. 1887H. B. Woodward Geol. England & Wales (ed. 2) ii. 232 The road to Wookey Hole..and that leading to Dulcot..show in places in the Red Marl a bed termed the ‘Wonder Stone’.
2. A soft bluish-grey rock of volcanic origin in South Africa that takes a high polish.
1936Mineral Resources Union S. Afr. (Geol. Survey, Union S. Afr.) (ed. 2) 299 Wonderstone appears to be one of the most indestructible of building stones. 1952Archit. Rev. CXI. 329/1 Some of the work in 1936 by Henry Moore in African wonderstone and by Barbara Hepworth was very derivative, in the best sense, of the shapes assumed by..the stone and pebble plants of the African Karoo. 1952L. MacNeice Ten Burnt Offerings 84 He was..Firm as a Rameses in African wonderstone. 1975Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. XI. 490/1 Large quantities of high quality wonderstone are available in the Dominion Reef System, 10 km north of Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal. |