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Noun- Building material consisting of large blocks cut from a natural deposit.

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  • Grand colonial buildings built from an off white volcanic rock called sillar, the city was clean, classy and cosmopolitan.
  • It´s strikingly beautiful, landscaped with flowers and palm trees, filled with pigeons identical to the ones in New York and Toronto, and lined with an enormous Catedral in the...
  • "Weel do you ken that your faither has no sillar!" said Meysie.
  • The barrio of Yanahuara is a beautiful suburb of Arequipa with narrow cobblestone streets and white sillar small houses and stores.
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