Pompeian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pompeian \Pom*pe"ian\, a. [L. Pompeianus.]
     Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, Pompeii, an ancient
     city of Italy, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 a. d.,
     and partly uncovered by modern excavations.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]