Word to the Wise: Marmoreal
Something that’s “marmoreal” (mar-MAWR-ee-ul) – from the Latin – resembles marble, as in smoothness, whiteness, or hardness.
Example (as used by Nicholson Baker in a New York Times review of Reading the OED by Ammon Shea): “Walter Pater read the dictionary to keep his prose pure and marmoreal.”
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