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travertine, -in|ˈtrævətɪn|
Also trevertine.
[ad. It. travertino, older tivertino ‘a kind of stone to build withall’ (Florio):—L. tīburtīnus tiburtine. Cf. F. travertin, in Cotgr. trevertin.]
A white or light-coloured concretionary limestone, usually hard and semi-crystalline, deposited from water holding lime in solution; also called travertine stone; quarried in Italy for building. A less solid porous form is known as calcareous tufa.
[1555Eden Decades 340 And [silver] is often tymes founde in an other stone lyke vnto Treuertino or in Treuertino it selfe. ]1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. III. lxxxviii. 455 They are..of the travertine stone. 1868Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) II. iii. xlvii. 544 Encrusted with a calcareous cement resembling travertin. 1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxix. (1877) 669 The travertine, or limestone of Tivoli,..was used to a great extent to cover the plain brickwork. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 122 At the falls of the Anio, the travertine has formed bed after bed to the thickness of four or five hundred feet.
b. attrib. Of, composed of, or of the nature of travertine.
1797[see above]. 1842Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 171/2 The Italian fresco workers..sometimes used puzzolano mixed with Trevertine lime. 1909Eng. Rev. Feb. 585 Sanger found these travertine mounds in every stage of development. |