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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A marble of deep and uniform black, which takes a high polish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Art) A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.

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