Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a name employed in France and Belgium for a fine-grained argillaceous sandstone, frequently calcareous, colored green or gray by glauconite. Sometimes applied to a friable granular chalky limestone.
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Examples
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Cabernet franc grown in a limestone soil called tuffeau yields the big guns.
Molly Laas: Toast the dregs of summer with hot-weather reds 2008
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The russet schist and white tuffeau stone give the edifice an unusual charm.
Quazen 2010
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The russet schist and tuffeau stone give the edifice a particular charm.
Quazen 2010
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