giallo anticon.
/ˌdʒaləʊ anˈtiːkəʊ/ A rich yellow marble found among ruins in Italy, and employed as a decoration; identified by some with the marmor Numidicum of the ancients. Also attributive or adj.
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giallo antico1741
Siena marble1774
sneg-stone1815
Mona marble1816
Sussex marble1850
Tennessee marble1875
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > others
Florentine marble1706
Carraraa1728
rosso antico1730
giallo antico1741
campan1794
dolomite1794
ruin marble1798
turquin1811
picrite1814
landscape marble1816
snow1848
Irish green1850
palombino1859
Tennessee marble1875
corallite1883
stalagmite marble1895
Piastraccia1909
1741 Lady Pomfret Lett. (1805) II. 310 Pillars and pilasters of giallo antique.
1771 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) V. 290 He..inhabits that most sumptuous of all palaces at Rome with door-cases giallo antico.
1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta II. xxxv. 280 Marbles..little..inferior to the famous giall, and verd antique.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 130 The granites, in giall antique, have an undescribable effect.
1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 465 He lies on a couch of giallo-antico.
1859 J. C. Hobhouse Italy II. 108 One of the giallo-antico columns.
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