Pentelicus
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- Pentelic adjective
- Pentelican adjective
Example Sentences
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From the 1890s to the 1930s, well-meaning architects sought to strengthen the battered Parthenon, which originally consisted of some 12,500 white marble stones hewn from Mount Pentelicus, ten miles to the north.
From Time Magazine Archive
The marble quarries gleam white on the long flanks of Mount Pentelicus, and the great range of Parnes leads on to �galeos.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)
Not a cloud hung upon Pentelicus, Hymettus, or the purple northern range of Parnes.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
Pentelic, -an, pen-tel′ik, -an, adj. describing a kind of marble found at Mount Pentelicus near Athens.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The principal exports are wine, cognac and marble from Pentelicus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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