marmoreal

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"Tombeaux antiques and froides reliques are marmoreal words, counters of total repose in calculated contrast to the heat and tumult of the preceding action.

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  1. adjective Resembling marble, as in smoothness, whiteness, or hardness.

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  • In the dim light, his face was marmoreal, beyond mortal concerns. —  Borrowed Finery, A Memoir
  • These, however, did not require my shoulder, but swung slowly and ponderously open of themselves, revealing a long vista of marmoreal arches -- each at least a hundred cubits high -- down which played such light as was never seen upon any world that circled a star, light silver, gold, and berylline by turns, flashing as though the air itself held splintered treasures. —  The Urth of the New Sun
  • The placement of her glittering black eyes, close by the bridge of her nose, accentuated the expanse of her marmoreal cheeks. —  Araminta Station
  • "Tombeaux antiques and froides reliques are marmoreal words, counters of total repose in calculated contrast to the heat and tumult of the preceding action. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2
  • But when you come down to it, I'm still myself. —  Owlsight
 

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  1. From Latin marmoreus, from marmor, marble.

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  1. from Latin marmoreus, of marble (from marmor, marble: see marble), + -al.
 

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/mɑrˈmoʊrəəl/
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