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Carrara|kəˈrɑːrə|
The name of a town in N. Italy, used attrib. to designate a variety of marble quarried there; spec. in Pottery (see quot. 1957).
a1728[see marble n. 1 b]. 1795R. Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. vi. 85 Carrara marble is next in purity. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 528/2 It is in Carrara marble that the finest works of Michelangelo and of Canova are executed. 1907E. Wharton Fruit of Tree i. iii. 32 The numerous gas-jets..shed their lights..on Carrara busts and bronze Indians. 1928D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatt. vii. 87 She began to be afraid of the ghastly white tombstones, that peculiar loathsome whiteness of Carrara marble. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Encycl. Eng. Pott. 43/1 Carrara, name given to the parian paste by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons. 1967J. Richardson Courtesans i. 22 In Blanche d'Antigny's bathroom, the bath was made of the finest Carrara marble. |