scagliola

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scagliola, a diminutive of scaglia.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -əʊlə

Noun

scagliola (usually uncountable, plural scagliolas)

  1. Plasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc.
    • 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers:
      "I must work the garden - I must work the garden." I said to myself, five minutes later, as I waited, upstairs, in the long, dusty sala, where the bare scagliola floor gleamed vaguely in a chink of the closed shutters.

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From scaglia +‎ -ola.

Noun

scagliola f (plural scagliole)

  1. a fine gypsum used for plaster modelling and stucco

Descendants
  • → Catalan: escaiola
  • → English: scagliola
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