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Travertine
Trav′er-tine
,Noun.
[F.
travertin
, It. travertino
, tiburtino
, L. lapis Tiburtinus
, fr. Tibur
an ancient town of Latium, now Tivoli.] (Min.)
A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.
Definition 2024
travertine
travertine
English
Noun
travertine (countable and uncountable, plural travertines)
- (mineralogy) A light, porous form of concretionary limestone (or calcite) deposited from solution, and sometimes quarried for building.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 191:
- Halder stopped outside a seven-storey building sheathed in pale travertine marble.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 191:
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Etymology
Travertine
From Italian travertino, earlier tivertino, from Latin tīburtīnus (“Tiburtine”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹavətɪn/