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Definition of Peperino

Peperino
Peperine Pep"e*rine, Peperino Pep`e*ri"no, n. [It. peperino, L. piper pepper. So called on account of its color.] (Geol.) A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.

Meaning of Peperino from wikipedia

- Peperino is an Italian word describing a brown or grey volcanic tuff, containing fragments of basalt and limestone, with disseminated crystals of augite...
- Hills that contain the lakes Albano and Nemi. The hills are composed of peperino (lapis alb****), a variety of tuff that is useful for construction and...
- Severans. Peperino tufa (podium faced with matching white marble) was used for the cella wall that features behind the colonnade. Blocks of peperino were left...
- Dacian prisoners. The arch was flanked by tall walls built from blocks of Peperino tuff clad entirely in marble, which enclosed the Forum on three sides....
- attraction is the foliated Romanesque-style columns in the portal. The peperino stone facade is otherwise undecorated. Comune of Vitorchiano, entry on...
- Marra, F.; Palladino, D. M.; Licht, O. A. Boni (July 2022). "The peperino rocks: historical and volcanological overview". Bulletin of Volcanology...
- stretching 33 metres (108.3 ft) from the ground level of the Forum and built in peperino and Gabine stone (lapis gabinum), which ancient Romans thought was particularly...
- Wikipedia article at [[:it:Peperino]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|it|Peperino}} to the talk page. For more...
- that they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum. Peperino has been used in Rome and Naples as a building stone, is a trachyte tuff...
- atop the Tabularium, which had once housed the archives of ancient Rome. Peperino blocks from the Tabularium were re-used in the left side of the palazzo...