Scagliola

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  • noun. Plasterwork in imitation of ornamental marble, consisting of ground gypsum and glue colored with marble or granite dust.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In architecture, an Italian process for imitating stone, used for enriching columns and internal walls of buildings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Plasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc..