[It.] VERD-ANTIQUE 1.

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1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Marble, Carystium Marmor…; the Italian antiquaries particularly mean this, by a name also in use among us, and prostituted to every other species of green marble, the verde antiquo.

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1765.  Smollett, Trav. Italy, xxviii. Wks. (1841), 756/2. The great profusion of granite, porphyry, jasper, verde antico, lapis-lazuli, and other precious stones.

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1839.  Penny Cycl., XIV. 409/1. Some Verde Antico, as that dug near Susa in Piedmont.

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1883.  Miss Braddon, Gold. Calf, II. vi. 185. Placid gods and goddesses smirking at vacancy, on pedestals of verde antico.

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1883.  Encycl. Brit., XV. 529/1. The famous verde antico is a rock of this character [i.e., serpentinous limestone].

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