Definition of "marmorean" []

• Marmoreal. (adjective)

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• "Now that I know his end, I see him creating, to use a favourite adjective of his, ‘marmorean’ verse, and believing the most terrible doctrines to keep down his own turbulence."
• "Burton still sleep in sepulchral pomp in their marmorean Arab Tent at Mortlake."
• "Others again, no less colossal, were disposed upon the steps of a monumental staircase which, by their decorative presence and marmorean immobility, was made worthy to be named, like that god-crowned ascent in the Palace of the Doges, the"