Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The local name in parts of the Italian Alps of a limestone of various colors, and of different geological ages.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A reddish variety of limestone.

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  • noun A reddish variety of limestone.

Etymologies

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Italian scaglia ("a scale, a shell, a ship of marble").

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