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palombino

palombino noun: a variety of marble.

Noun

palombino (uncountable)

  1. A variety of marble.
    • Without awaking him she went away and climbed again into the upper air; and there, where the marucca and myrtle made a shadow above the place of the tombs, she sat down on a block of palombino, stunned and dumb.1882, Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), In Maremma (volume 3, page 154)

Questions about palombino

What does palombino mean?
Palombino means a variety of marble.
What part of speech is palombino?
Palombino is a noun.

Words near palombino in the dictionary

  1. Palomar
  2. Palomars
  3. palomas
  4. Palomba
  5. Palombas
  6. palombino
  7. Palombo
  8. Palombos
  9. Palomeque
  10. Palomeques
  11. Palomera

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