Pentelic marble

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin marmor Pentelicum.

Noun

Pentelic marble (usually uncountable, plural Pentelic marbles)

  1. (mineralogy) A white marble with a uniform, faint yellow tint, quarried on Mount Pentelicus near Athens.

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