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BRECCIA

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brec⋅ci⋅a

  [brech-ee-uh, bresh-]
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–noun Petrology.
rock composed of angular fragments of older rocks melded together.
Origin:
1765–75; < It < Gmc; cf. OHG brecha breaking
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brec·ci·a   (brěch'ē-ə, brěch'ə, brěsh'-)   
n.  Rock composed of sharp-angled fragments embedded in a fine-grained matrix.

[Italian, of Germanic origin; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.]
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breccia 
"rock of angular pieces," 1774, from It., "marble of angular pieces," from a Gmc. source akin to O.H.G. brecha "a breaking."
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