peperino

• The beholder is confronted by the façade of the castle, a two-storied structure in the style of the Renaissance, with windows whose casements are made of peperino (cement). —  Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
• It was surrounded with a wall of peperino, supporting at intervals vases and statues; and on the outside were semicircular stone seats for the benefit of weary wayfarers. —  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• There is mention of 400 marble columns and 300 statues, but these are to be regarded as only chief among the embellishments The streets of Rome were commonly paved with blocks of lava quarried in the neighbourhood from the abundant deposits which had formed in a not very remote volcanic period The materials employed for substantial building were various; in the older days red and black tufa--a stone so soft as to require protection by a layer of stucco; later the dark-brown peperino, the golden-creamy travertine, marble white and coloured, and concrete. —  Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
• Tarquinii, the stone being of the colour of peperino. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
• He finished with peperino-stone the front of the principal chapel, formerly begun by —  Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto

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