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Definition of Acroliths
1. acrolith [n] - See also: acrolith
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acroliths
Literary usage of Acroliths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The wood was concealed either by gilding or, more commonly, by drapery, and the
marble parts alone were exposed. acroliths are frequently mentioned by ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"... draped wooden figures with heads of bronze, wax, or marble, like the Greek
acroliths, were 80 arranged: possibly they were borne to the ..."
3. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"Of another kind are the acroliths, wooden images, clothed, or painted, or even
covered with thin plates of gold; the nude parts—the heads, arms, ..."
4. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giles Henry Lodge (1873)
"Such statues, of which the extremities only were of stone, were called acroliths:
this is the signification of the word, hitherto undiscovered either by ..."
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