marmoreal

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From Latin marmoreus, from marmor (“marble”).

marmoreal (comparative more marmoreal, superlative most marmoreal)

Resembling marble or a marble statue.
- 1943: For in no wise could he leave that lofty spot, or descend the wide marmoreal flights. - H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- 1949: If, as I said, his fingertips arrived at this, perhaps her flesh, marmoreal and lazy, was hardly aware that these were, in fact, fingertips, and not for example, nails or knuckles. - Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves
- 1950: Irma had collapsed into a chair, and her long marmoreal face was buried in her hands. — Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- 1985: The gods, of course, were a quite farcical invention, though necessary for the as it were marmoreal exaltation of the civic virtues. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

(obsolete) marmoraceous