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marmoreal


  • a  of or relating to or characteristic of marble

  • This year's Bawl Street Journal, annual Manhattan Bond Club parody of the marmoreal Wall Street Journal, tried hard last week to keep its cracks aimed below Canal Street.
  • Flags fluttered from every eminence of Ankara's massive, marmoreal railroad station.
  • The "marmoreal banks" of Collyer Quay are there too, even if their employees no longer take mid-morning tiffin or quit for a game of tennis in the late afternoon, as Blackett did.
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  • Luca Turin in Sydney Morning Herald
    Turin describes the effect, one which transformed the way perfumers thought about their craft: "These molecules lent an abstract, marmoreal, blue-white radiance to what would otherwise have been a lush but relatively tame floral. To understand what...

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