nero antico

noun

A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.

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Meanings

nounnero antico (uncountable)
  1. uncountableartA beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.

    A table of red granite, above which is a relief in nero antico on a ground of lapislazzuli […]

    1843, Jeremiah Donovan, Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, volume 3, page 730

Origin

Italian, literally "black ancient".

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