| 单词 | rance marble |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrance marble More fully rance marble. A kind of variegated marble, predominantly dull red in colour. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > variegated onychites1569 rance1605 onychite1651 brocatello1728 brocatelle1756 pavonazzetto1793 cipolin1798 pavonazzo1816 saveloy marble1839 Algerian onyx1856 onyx marble1862 1605 J. Sylvester Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith Ded., in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. 545 A Tombe..With Iuorie Pillars, mixt with Iette and Rance. 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies iv. liii No Launce can pierce it, it is grown More heard than Raunce, or th' Adamantine stone. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 107 Yielding Coal, Lead, Copper, Rance Marble, and Mill-stones. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 107 Chimney-pieces..of Rance, or Liver-colour'd-marble. 1769 Descr. Eng. & Wales VIII. 197 A species called rance-marble, consists of a white, hard, shining grit, streaked with red. 1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. II. 166 Yelpersley Torr, and most of the hills thereabouts, are..a rance marble, of a white hard shining grit, striped red, and capable of a good polish. 1887 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Rance, a marble obtained from Hainault in Belgium, of a dingy red colour varied with veins and spots of blue and white. 1906 P. de Nolhac Versailles & Trianons iv. 216 Its eight busts of white marble on pedestals of Rance marble. 1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 39 The monument is of ‘alabaster, tuche, rance, and white and black marble’, as stated in the agreement. 1985 Antiquaries Jrnl. June 396 Garret Johnson's Southwark shop charged £60 for a multi-coloured chimney-piece of alabaster, marble, touch..and rance. 2006 Apollo 1 July 56/2 The steps and pedestal are executed solely in black and white marble; and neither rance nor yellow marble are used at all. < as lemmas |
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