| 释义 |
‖ verde antico
[It.]
= verd-antique 1.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Marble, Carystium Marmor..; the Italian antiquaries particularly mean this, by a name also in use among us, and prostituted to every other species of green marble, the verde antiquo. 1765Smollett Trav. Italy xxviii. Wks. (1841) 756/2 The great profusion of granite, prophyry, jasper, verde antico, lapis-lazuli, and other precious stones. 1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 409/1 Some Verde Antico, as that dug near Susa in Piedmont. 1883M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf II. vi. 185 Placid gods and goddesses smirking at vacancy, on pedestals of verde antico. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 529/1 The famous verde antico is a rock of this character [i.e. serpentinous limestone]. |