A type of marble or stone with distinctive veining, sometimes used in architecture and sculpture, quarried from specific regions.
From Italian 'Carrara,' the name of a famous marble-quarrying region in Tuscany, Italy, eventually borrowed into English as a generic term for similar fine-grained stone.
Carrara marble became so famous that people named it after the place—this is called a 'proprietary eponym'—and it shaped Renaissance art because Michelangelo used it for his masterpieces.
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