nero-antico

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nero-antico - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nero-antico \Ne`ro-an*ti"co\, n. [It.; nero black + antico
     ancient.] (Art)
     A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Roman
     ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]