scagliola
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of scagliola
1575–85; < Italian, equivalent to scagli ( a ) a chip (< Gothic skalja tile; cognate with shell ) + -ola diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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The room was lit with carved Indian table lamps with parchment lampshades, sitting on gilded bronze side-tables with faux-malachite scagliola tops by Oriel Harwood.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2014
A pair of large French bronze candelabra on red scagliola columns dating from the 1880s reproduced a model of the 1780s.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2011
Overhead and around us the same evanescent frescoes, under foot the same scagliola volutes, unrolled themselves interminably.
From Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton
Over the principal entrance is a well executed head of Homer, and in the entrance-hall which has a tesselated pavement, are four scagliola columns with Corinthian capitals.
From Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 by Geo. A. (George Arthur) Stephen
The floors are of marble mosaic, the sides of green or purple scagliola and the vaulted ceilings covered with raised ornaments on a ground of gold.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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