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单词 scagliola
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Definition of scagliola in English:

scagliola

noun skalˈjəʊləˌskælˈjoʊlə
mass noun
  • Imitation marble or other stone, made of plaster mixed with glue and dyes which is then painted or polished.

    人造大理石;仿云石

    as modifier scagliola columns
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were a number of unusual features - the proportion of gilding to porphyry, the use of scagliola, the use of liners, the lack of comparable design: these points largely arise from Petitot's design.
    • Based in Shropshire, and almost entirely self-taught, he is the only craftsman in the UK making figurative scagliola (the taste for crafts runs in the family; his father, Hugh, makes armour for elephants).
    • Neapolitan workshops also produced scagliola, a composition substance that could closely imitate pietre dure decoration.
    • The glass reflects the warmth emanating from the cleaned up yellow scagliola wall panels.
    • The execution of these scenes in scagliola is a triumph, but it is scarcely less astonishing than Mr Kennedy's virtuoso inscription around the rim.
    • First, the house's painted Chinoiserie wallpaper suggested a palette for the scagliola: soft shades of terracotta, green, buff, lilac and dusty blue.
    • The Egyptian dining room had been painted over, but when stripped it revealed a vast expanse of scagliola (18th-century plaster marbling).
    • The splendid scagliola columns are repaired and polished to their eighteenth-century condition.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Italian scagliuola, diminutive of scaglia 'a scale'.

Rhymes

Angola, barbola, bipolar, bowler, bronchiolar, canola, carambola, circumpolar, coaler, Coca-Cola, cola, comptroller, consoler, controller, Ebola, eidola, extoller, Finola, Gorgonzola, granola, Hispaniola, kola, Lola, lunisolar, mandola, molar, multipolar, Ndola, patroller, payola, pianola, polar, roller, Savonarola, scroller, sola, solar, stroller, tombola, Tortola, troller, Vignola, viola, Zola

Definition of scagliola in US English:

scagliola

nounˌskalˈyōləˌskælˈjoʊlə
  • Imitation marble or other stone, made of plaster mixed with glue and dyes which is then painted or polished.

    人造大理石;仿云石

    as modifier scagliola columns
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Neapolitan workshops also produced scagliola, a composition substance that could closely imitate pietre dure decoration.
    • Based in Shropshire, and almost entirely self-taught, he is the only craftsman in the UK making figurative scagliola (the taste for crafts runs in the family; his father, Hugh, makes armour for elephants).
    • The glass reflects the warmth emanating from the cleaned up yellow scagliola wall panels.
    • First, the house's painted Chinoiserie wallpaper suggested a palette for the scagliola: soft shades of terracotta, green, buff, lilac and dusty blue.
    • The Egyptian dining room had been painted over, but when stripped it revealed a vast expanse of scagliola (18th-century plaster marbling).
    • The splendid scagliola columns are repaired and polished to their eighteenth-century condition.
    • The execution of these scenes in scagliola is a triumph, but it is scarcely less astonishing than Mr Kennedy's virtuoso inscription around the rim.
    • There were a number of unusual features - the proportion of gilding to porphyry, the use of scagliola, the use of liners, the lack of comparable design: these points largely arise from Petitot's design.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Italian scagliuola, diminutive of scaglia ‘a scale’.

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