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| has gloss | (noun) a dark green impure marble verd antique, verde antique |
| has gloss | eng: Verd antique (obsolete French, from Italian, verde antico, "ancient green"), or verde antique, is a serpentinite breccia popular since ancient times as a decorative facing stone. It is a dark, dull green, white-mottled (or white-veined) serpentine, mixed with calcite, dolomite, or magnesite, which takes a high polish. It is sometimes classed, erroneously, as a variety of marble ("serpentine marble", "Connemara marble", "Moriah stone", etc). It has also been marketed as "ophicalcite" or "ophite". |
| lexicalization | eng: verd antique |
| lexicalization | eng: verde antique |
| subclass of | (noun) a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material marble |
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| similar | e/Verd antique |
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