Also -tella, -telli. [It. brocatello de Sienna, so called from its brocade-like coloring: see prec.] A kind of variegated marble, clouded and veined white, grey, yellow and red, yellow usually prevailing; Sienna marble.
1752. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Marble, There is also another kind of antient Brocatella dug near Adrianople.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 409/1. The beautiful Brocatello or Brocade marble of Italy and Spain.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 534. Brocatelli Marble, an artificial marble made from fragments of natural marbles united by means of an artificial cement.
