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Tufa   /tˈufə/   Listen
Tufa

noun
1.
A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime.  Synonym: calc-tufa.
2.
Hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash.  Synonym: tuff.






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"Tufa" Quotes from Famous Books



... building close to the garden wall, whose single inner room was designed to imitate a rock cave. The walls were covered with tufa and stalagmites, shells, mountain crystals, and corals, and from the lofty ceiling hung large stalactites. From one of the walls a fountain plashed into a large shell garlanded with green aquatic plants and tenanted by several ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... hopes of sublimity as you pass beyond the palace and take your choice of either curving slope to descend into the Forum. Then you see that the little stuccoed edifice is but a modern excrescence on the mighty cliff of a primitive construction, whose great squares of porous tufa, as they underlie each other, seem to resolve themselves back into the colossal cohesion of unhewn rock. There are prodigious strangenesses in the union of this airy and comparatively fresh- faced superstructure and these deep-plunging, hoary foundations; and few things in Rome ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James

... from other burials, let priests and priestesses follow, unless the Pythian oracle forbid them; for this burial is free from pollution. The place of burial shall be an oblong vaulted chamber underground, constructed of tufa, which will last for ever, having stone couches placed side by side. And here they will lay the blessed person, and cover the sepulchre with a circular mound of earth and plant a grove of trees around on every side but one; and on that side the sepulchre shall be allowed ...
— Laws • Plato



Words linked to "Tufa" :   stone, volcanic rock, tuff, rock



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