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breccia|ˈbrɛttʃə, ˈbrɛtʃɪə|
Also 8 brechia, 9 brecchia, bricia.
[a. It. breccia ‘gravel or rubbish of broken walls’ (Florio), cogn. with F. brèche breaking, breach, breccia, Sp. brecha, adapted from Teutonic: cf. OHG. brecha breaking, f. brechan, OTeut brekan to break. (Used in the name Breccia Marble, before its separate use in Geology.)]
a. Geol. A composite rock consisting of angular fragments of stone, etc., cemented together by some matrix, such as lime: sometimes opposed to conglomerate, in which the fragments are rounded and waterworn. osseous breccia or bone breccia: one in which fossil bones are found.
1774Strange in Phil. Trans. LXV. 38 Which the Italians call lava brecciata, from its resemblance to the Breccia marbles. 1781J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain 362 A kind of brechia or pudding-stone. 1784Wedgwood in Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 378 It had the appearance of breccia marble or plum-pudding stone. 1802Playfair Illustr. Hutton. Theory 7 Those pudding-stones or breccias where the gravel consists of quartz. 1818Scott Rob Roy (1855) 244 Deep gullies where masses of the composite rock or breccia tumbling..from the cliffs have rushed to the valley. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 374 The name of Breccia is derived from the well-known Breccia marble, which has the appearance of being composed of fragments joined together by carbonate of lime. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. i. 29 Embedded in the same breccia with flint knives.
b. transf. A conglomerate of gravel and ice.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xi. 116 Stands of the same Arctic breccia.
c. fig.
1873L. Stephen Freethinking vi. 203 His prose, at excited moments, becomes a kind of breccia of blank verse. 1944H. G. Wells '42 to '44 149 With this sort of breccia in their heads, these gentlemen seem able to sleep of nights without ordinary narcotics.
Hence ˈbreccial a., of or pertaining to breccia.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxx. (1856) 259 One solid breccial mass of impacted angularities. |