Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Elgin marbles

Elgin marbles

Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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