| 单词 | irish green |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrish green Irish green n. (more fully Irish green marble) serpentine marble from Connemara. 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 1850 G. Godwin Buildings & Monuments 11/2 Irish green marble is extensively used in the floor, as a decoration. 1865 Nat. Hist. Rev. Apr. 297 The best way of getting a sight of the structure..is to dissolve small flakes of the ‘Irish Green’ (as the stone-masons' men called the Galway and Connemara marble) in very weak dilute acid. 1914 Times 16 July 11/4 A massive chimneypiece, white marble inlaid with Irish green, 41 guineas. 2003 P. Rogers Westm. Cathedral 65 The green marble of Connemara is an ophicalcite... It is known as Connemara green or Irish green. < as lemmas |
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