scagliola
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian scagliola, a diminutive of scaglia.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊlə
Noun
scagliola (usually uncountable, plural scagliolas)
- Plasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc.
- 1888 September 29, Henry James, “[The Aspern Papers.]”, in The Aspern Papers; Louisa Pallant; The Modern Warning, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 13:
- ‘I must work the garden—I must work the garden,’ I said to myself, five minutes later, as I waited, upstairs, in the long, dusty sala, where the bare scagliola floor gleamed vaguely in a chink of the closed shutters.
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Italian
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Noun
scagliola f (plural scagliole)