Scagliola (noun)
skal-ee-oh-la
plasterwork imitating marble, granite, or the like.
1575–85; Italian, equivalent to scagli(a) a chip (Gothic skalja tile; cognate with shell) + -ola diminutive suffix
Example sentences
“…the light catching the scagliola walls.”
Meraki (Μεράκι) (Greek) (noun) me-rah-kee To do something with soul, creativity, and love. When someone cooks with meraki, builds with meraki, writes with meraki, they’ve poured themselves into it. Derived…
