Lexicographical Neighbors of Cipollino
Literary usage of Cipollino
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What Rome was Built with: A Description of the Stones Employed in Ancient by Mary Winearls Porter (1907)
"4 cipollino differs from ordinary marble in showing bands (often plicated) of
different shades of green, in which, according to Geikie,5 the calcite is ..."
2. New Guide of Rome and the Environs: According to Vasi and Nibby, Containing by Antonio Nibby, Mariano Vasi (1849)
"In the adjoining lane, called « Spada d' Orlando » is a massive cipollino column ,
and several similar ones in the adjacent houses which seem to have formed ..."
3. History and Uses of Limestones and Marbles by Sarah Maria Burnham (1883)
"It is said that the large columns of cipollino, belonging to the celebrated portico
... The cipollino admits of great variations; when green spots assume an ..."
4. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820)
"This cipollino is a primitive and ... with particles of mica and green stripes,
and is called cipollino, from the resemblance it bears to a leek (cipolla) ..."
5. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1883)
"They are micaceous strata ; and thus the true cipollino is a mixture of ...
There are many varieties of cipollino, the most common being the typical marble, ..."
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