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 Wharton, Edith
The ceiling was decorated with fresco paintings, and supported by two stately scagliola pillars.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
A flight of veined marble steps leads to the vestibule, with a floor of scagliola, and twelve large Ionic columns and sixteen pilasters of verde antique.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 by Various
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