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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A marble of a rich golden-yellow color, deepening in tint to orange and pink, found among Roman ruins and used anew in buildings of the Renaissance and later times. It is identified by J. H. Middleton (“Ancient Rome in 1885”) with the marmor Numidicum of the ancients.
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