The word of the day is marmoreal:
skin of marmoreal smoothness.
"Indirect object:....
She gave him the cold shoulder because they had a marmoreal love."
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
Saturday, January 19, 2013
word of the day: marmoreal
The word of the day is marmoreal:
"To me, Andrew and Ralph were figures in a vast allegorical conflict. Under the white banner of Andrew there was Renault, and true love, and the ancient Greeks, with their lofty rhetoric and marmoreal beauty; under the black banner of Ralph there was Playgirl, and sex, and thoughts about naked men - the messy and confusing present."
- Daniel Mendelsohn, "The American boy: a famous author, a young reader, and a life-changing correspondence", 7 January 2013 The New Yorker
Etymology:
< classical Latin marmoreus (see marmoreous adj.) + -al suffix1.
literary.
1. Resembling marble or a marble statue; cold (also smooth, white, etc.) like marble.2. Made or composed of marble. Obs. (OED)
"To me, Andrew and Ralph were figures in a vast allegorical conflict. Under the white banner of Andrew there was Renault, and true love, and the ancient Greeks, with their lofty rhetoric and marmoreal beauty; under the black banner of Ralph there was Playgirl, and sex, and thoughts about naked men - the messy and confusing present."
- Daniel Mendelsohn, "The American boy: a famous author, a young reader, and a life-changing correspondence", 7 January 2013 The New Yorker
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