marmoreal
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Over the centuries, many art restorers and dealers felt obliged to vigorously scrub Greek and Roman objects, so as to enhance their marmoreal gleam—and their collectibility.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
Then there’s the marmoreal serenity of the shoulder lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2018
She quotes Montaigne even more than Kalanithi does, but to her, he is not a marmoreal Great Writer, but a companion, the chatty, brilliant, worldly friend at her elbow.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
Late one evening in Washington, we walked by a thickset monolith that glowed with a cold marmoreal light, as if James Turrell had built a fortress for some paranoid ice king.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2016
The marmoreal and academic work seemed wonderfully warm and original in that room at Bycars.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
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