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prettygoodwordscagliola (skal-YOH-luh) - n., plasterwork imitating ornamental marble.
Plaster which has had a surface layer of marble dust glued on. Borrowed from Italian in either the mid-16th or mid-18th centuries (dictionaries disagree), where it is the diminutive of scaglia, chip, from Gothic skalja, tile, thus making it a Germanic cognate of shell.
---L.
Plaster which has had a surface layer of marble dust glued on. Borrowed from Italian in either the mid-16th or mid-18th centuries (dictionaries disagree), where it is the diminutive of scaglia, chip, from Gothic skalja, tile, thus making it a Germanic cognate of shell.
---L.
