Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light-colored porous calcite, CaCO3, deposited from solution in ground or surface waters and forming, among other deposits, stalactites and stalagmites.
- noun A compact calcium carbonate used as a facing material in construction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy Any of several light, porous forms of
calcite deposited from solution; found most often asstalactites andstalagmites . - noun A similar form of
limestone used as afacing material in building.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The area around the pool becomes a sunken courtyard paved in travertine with steps and walls of stone.
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As far as I know travertine is very UV stable so the floor will not yellow. david on 16 Oct 2008 at 10: 37 am # the home has plenty of overhang to prevent sun damage ..
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We find lacustrine marls on the sides of the Esquiline Hill where it slopes down into the Forum, and fresh-water bivalve and univalve shells in the ground under the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol; while on the face of the Aventine Hill, overhanging the Tiber at a height of ninety feet, is a cliff of travertine, which is half a mile long.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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So large is the quantity of these eggs, that at a spot where a little stream deposits carbonate of lime, a peculiar kind of travertine is forming which consists of masses of them imbedded in tho calcareous deposit.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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The travertine floors had been freshly waxed, and Tara could smell lemon cleaning solution.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Just as flagstone and travertine work well in a Mediterranean garden design, brick and gravel complement an English garden design.
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The travertine floors had been freshly waxed, and Tara could smell lemon cleaning solution.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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It's challenging to tease apart one's love of the massive sculpture from the perfectly proportioned piazza, with its oft-copied egg-shaped travertine pavement pattern, where the statue was permanently placed in 1538.
Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011
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It's challenging to tease apart one's love of the massive sculpture from the perfectly proportioned piazza, with its oft-copied egg-shaped travertine pavement pattern, where the statue was permanently placed in 1538.
Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011
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Out went the long, winding hallways, a bonus room over a garage and materials like travertine floors; in came shorter hallways and porcelain tile floors.
A Dream Home, a Decade Later Juliet Chung 2011
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From a Roman poet in 1938 describing the arrival of Hitler:
November 9, 2007