elgin marbles

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noun plural elgin marbles a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum 0
noun elgin marbles a collection of ancient Athenian marble sculptures taken chiefly from the Parthenon, in the British Museum since 1816 0

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