scagliola

plural scagliolas · alternative archaic scaliola

1. uncountableusuallyPlasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc.

   ‘I must work the garden—I must work the garden,’ I said to myself, five minutes later, as I waited, upstairs, in the long, dusty sala, where the bare scagliola floor gleamed vaguely in a chink of the closed shutters.

   1888 September 29, Henry James, “[The Aspern Papers.]”, in The Aspern Papers; Louisa Pallant; The Modern Warning, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 13