palombino

English

Noun

palombino (uncountable)

1. A variety of marble.
   • 1882, Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), In Maremma (volume 3, page 154)

     Without awaking him she went away and climbed again into the upper air; and there, where the marucca and myrtle made a shadow above the place of the tombs, she sat down on a block of palombino, stunned and dumb.