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From Latinmarmoreus(“of, pertaining to, consisting of or made of marble; resembling marble; adorned with statues”) + English-al(suffix forming adjectives).Marmoreus is derived from marmor(“block or piece of marble; marble building or statue”) (from Ancient Greekμάρμᾰρος(mármaros, “marble”)) + -eus(suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
How many a night serene, shall I behold / Those warm attractive orbits, close inshrined / In ether, over which Love's column rose / Marmoreal, trophied round with golden hair.
Each feminine delight of florid lip, / Eyes brimming o'er and brow bowed down with love, / Marmoreal neck and bosom uberous,— […]
1901 December, Edward S[ims] Van Zile, “The Chopin Society”, in Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation, New York, N.Y., London: The Smart Set Publishing Co., published April 1903, →OCLC, page 246:
The marmoreal whiteness of her perfect neck and firm, well-rounded arms was emphasized by a sharp contrast. Of color there was none, save for the slight flush of health in her cheeks and the rich, red line of her strong, sensitive mouth.
[I]f now the soldier's fingertips, the pads, seemingly endowed with a sudden clairvoyance, could sense through those different stuffs the hems of subterranean garments and even the very minute roughness of skin, pores and moles—if, as I said, his fingertips arrived at this, perhaps her flesh, marmoreal and lazy, was hardly aware that these were, in fact, fingertips, and not for example, nails or knuckles.
But each night as he stood on that high marble terrace with the curious urns and carven rail and looked off over that hushed sunset of beauty and unearthly immanance he felt the bondage of dream's tyrannous gods; for in no wise could he leave that lofty spot, or descend the wide marmoreal flights flung endlessly down to where those streets of elder witchery lay outspread and beckoning.