Carraran.

Brit.

/kəˈrɑːrə/, U.S.

/kəˈrɑrə/,

/kəˈrɛrə/

Etymology: < Carrara, the name of a town in northern Italy.

Used attributively to designate a variety of marble quarried in Carrara; spec. in Ceramics (see quot. 1957).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > others

Florentine marble1706

Carraraa1728

rosso antico1730

giallo antico1741

campan1794

dolomite1794

ruin marble1798

turquin1811

picrite1814

landscape marble1816

snow1848

Irish green1850

palombino1859

Tennessee marble1875

corallite1883

stalagmite marble1895

Piastraccia1909

a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 25 The common white Carara marble.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. vi. 85 Carrara marble is next in purity.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 528/2 It is in Carrara marble that the finest works of Michelangelo and of Canova are executed.

1907 E. Wharton Fruit of Tree i. iii. 32 The numerous gas-jets..shed their lights..on Carrara busts and bronze Indians.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover vii. 87 She began to be afraid of the ghastly white tombstones, that peculiar loathsome whiteness of Carrara marble.

1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 43/1 Carrara, name given to the parian paste by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons.

1967 J. Richardson Courtesans i. 22 In Blanche d'Antigny's bathroom, the bath was made of the finest Carrara marble.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	carrara
释义	Carraran. Brit. /kəˈrɑːrə/, U.S. /kəˈrɑrə/, /kəˈrɛrə/ Etymology: < Carrara, the name of a town in northern Italy. Used attributively to designate a variety of marble quarried in Carrara; spec. in Ceramics (see quot. 1957). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > others Florentine marble1706 Carraraa1728 rosso antico1730 giallo antico1741 campan1794 dolomite1794 ruin marble1798 turquin1811 picrite1814 landscape marble1816 snow1848 Irish green1850 palombino1859 Tennessee marble1875 corallite1883 stalagmite marble1895 Piastraccia1909 a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 25 The common white Carara marble. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. vi. 85 Carrara marble is next in purity. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 528/2 It is in Carrara marble that the finest works of Michelangelo and of Canova are executed. 1907 E. Wharton Fruit of Tree i. iii. 32 The numerous gas-jets..shed their lights..on Carrara busts and bronze Indians. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover vii. 87 She began to be afraid of the ghastly white tombstones, that peculiar loathsome whiteness of Carrara marble. 1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 43/1 Carrara, name given to the parian paste by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons. 1967 J. Richardson Courtesans i. 22 In Blanche d'Antigny's bathroom, the bath was made of the finest Carrara marble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1728
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