Crossword-Solution: TRAVERTINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Travertine | n. | 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. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “TRAVERTINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CRYSTALLINE limestone used for building | 1 answer |
| DECORATIVE building stone | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN building stone, decorative | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN stone, decorative | 1 answer |
| LIMESTONE used for building | 1 answer |
| Limestone from hot springs | 1 answer |
| Limestone used in Roman Colosseum. | 1 answer |
| form of limestone deposited by mineral springs | 1 answer |
| Building stone | 13 answers |
| limestone | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with TRAVERTINE (5)
Impartial to the antique, the mediaeval, the Renaissance early and late, the newer modern, this wild summer finds its account in travertine and tufa, reticulated work, brick, stucco and stone.
And out of that cave--though not always out of the mouth of it--will run a stream of water, which seems to you clear as crystal, though it is actually, like the Itchen at Winchester, full of lime; so full of lime, that it makes beds of fresh limestone, which are called travertine--which you may see in Italy, and Greece, and Asia Minor: or perhaps it petrifies, as you call it, the weeds in its bed, like that dropping-well at Knaresborough, of which you have often seen a picture.
The great enclosure was half in shadow; the western sun brought out the pale red tone of the great blocks of travertine--the latent colour that is the only living element in the immense ruin.
Denneville had been successful in working with material made in imitation of Travertine marble, used in many of the ancient buildings of Rome, very beautiful in texture and peculiarly suited to the kind of building that needed color.
Though this plaster looks like Travertine, it nevertheless remains plaster, and it lends itself to plastic decoration.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1961–1993).