“Piastraccia”的英英意思

单词 Piastraccia
释义 Piastraccia|pjaˈstratʃa|
The name of a quarry near Seravezza, between Carrara and Lucca in N. Italy, used to designate a variety of white marble with slender grey veins quarried there.
1909Westm. Gaz. 9 June 11/3 The entrance hall and corridor walls are faced with polished Piastraccia and Swedish green marble.1955W. Gaddis Recognitions iii. i. 726 In response to the darkening sky, the sea changed its surface from glass to marble, the Breche rose marble of Italy reflecting the broken color of the sun, and losing that, to the gray-white Piastraccia, reflecting light from nowhere, veined with shadows.

 

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