0 made of or looking similar to marble (= a type of very hard rock with a pattern of lines through it that can be polished to become smooth and shiny ):
The marmoreal splendour of the Glasgow City Chambers was a fine setting for the lecture.
In some photographs taken near the end of his life, he looks marmoreal - a statue of himself.
She seems pulsingly alive in a way that the grand, marmoreal singers sometimes did not.
As an actor, he's always been wooden, but here he's marmoreal.
We expect to be awed by the sheer size and marmoreal magnificence of David, the Sistine Chapel, the dome of St. Peter's in Rome.
The play is staged like a dream, with a series of figures taking turns to sit brooding above the action, outlined in a marmoreal light.
His overall approach is more warm and flowing than marmoreal, the 17-minute Adagio paced so that it never drags.
