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[pâŕē-ən, păŕ-]
(adj.)Of or relating to the island of Páros or its inhabitants.
(adj.)Of or being a type of white, semitranslucent marble quarried at Páros…
(n.)A native or inhabitant of Páros.
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Parian is the name given to the white biscuit porcelain primarily associated with figure modeling. The name derives from its close similarity to the white marble mined on the island of Paros in the Aegean Sea. ... Even now the makings of parian figures is a highly skilled craft, so in the early days of its development...
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Parian marble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Parian marble is a fine-grained semitranslucent pure-white marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros in the Aegean Sea. It was highly prized by the ancient Greeks for...
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Parian Chronicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Parian Marble (or Parian Chronicle or Marmor Parium ) is a Greek chronological table, inscribed on a stele, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC. Found on the island of Páros in two sec...
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Parian Ware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parian Ware was a form of unglazed ("bisque") porcelain, given the commercial name to link it in the consumer's mind with the immaculately white Parian marble from the Greek island of Paros; its slig...
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Perian is a free, open source, QuickTime component that supports many popular media types, including AVI, DivX, and XviD. ... Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. ... Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media:
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Less expensive than bronze and more durable than plaster, Parian was a development of earlier biscuit porcelain. Its invention did not come out of thin air, however. It was a derivative of the unglazed, white porcelain biscuit figures produced by French factories such as Sevre.
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During the 1840s a new hard, white unglazed porcelain, known as "statuary porcelain" and later as "Parian" from its marble-like quality, was first produced by Spode.
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