单词 | marmoreal |
释义 | marmoreal (once / 134311 pages) adj Anything marmoreal is smooth and white or otherwise characteristic of marble, like a pale face or a tombstone. Marmoreal is an old-fashioned, fancy word for “marble-like.” The word marmoreal comes from the Latin marmoreus for "of marble.” Marble is a type of limestone that is usually smooth and white. Marmoreal hit the scene just in time to describe all those pale white smooth faces of the Victorian age. If you’re speaking, you might say a sky “looks like marble,” but if you’re writing poetry, take it up a notch and describe it as a "marmoreal sky." WORD FAMILYmarble: marbled, marbleise, marbleize, marbles, marbling, marmoreal, marmorean+/marbleise: marbleisation, marbleised, marbleising/marbleize: marbleization, marbleized, marbleizing/marbling: marblings USAGE EXAMPLESHeads, necks and arms are carried with marmoreal firmness, as if these dancers belonged in chokers, long white gloves and ostrich-feather tiaras. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) One quintet of bathers looks disconcertingly like the marmoreal Aryan nudes of Adolf Ziegler, Hitler’s favorite artist. The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has insisted Britain will maintain “an implacable, marmoreal and rock-like resistance” to any change in Gibraltar’s sovereignty. The Guardian(Oct 22, 2016) adj of or relating to or characteristic of marble Syn marmorean |
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