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
From above the radiance of the gas "sunlight" streamed down over the marble pillars, and glanced on gilded cornices and panels of scagliola.
From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward
The commission for the scagliola tables was given me without any dimensions; I suppose there is a common size.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
The dicromi, or yellow figures on a black ground, in imitation of the Etruscan vases, are now most admired in scagliola work; and as the art is one easy of attainment, we shall describe it.
From The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 by Unknown
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