Carrara

[ kuh-rahr-uh; Italian kahr-rah-rah ]

noun

1. a city in NW Tuscany, in NW Italy.

Carrara

/ kəˈrɑːrə; karˈraːra /

noun

1. a town in NW Italy, in NW Tuscany: famous for its marble. Pop: 65 034 (2001)

Other Words From

• Car·raran noun adjective

Example Sentences

In particular, Sicilian marble takes up more energy than Carrara marble because the latter allows for extracting more undamaged blocks, thereby using less energy to produce the same amount of marble.

From Popular-Science

Carrara marble has been quarried as far back as Roman times and was used by emperors for massive monuments like the Rome Pantheon.

From The Daily Beast

Another picture from the little Accademia Carrara show, closing soon at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

From The Daily Beast

Houdon then returned to France and proceeded to carve a Carrara marble statue of his subject.

From Project Gutenberg

And indeed, from La Foce all the noise and cruelty of that life in the quarries at Carrara is forgotten.

From Project Gutenberg

The mantelpiece was Carrara marble, curiously inlaid with coloured wreaths.

From Project Gutenberg

This little Tuscan town of Carrara owes its all to its, seemingly, inexhaustible stores of milk-white, fine-grained marbles.

From Project Gutenberg

Of all the materials the artist requires, none is so much sought after as the pure white marble of Carrara.

From Project Gutenberg