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marbled
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Composed of marble; having a marble exterior. 2 Having marbling. 3 Resembling marble. 4 (context meat English) Interlaced with fat. v (en-past of: marble )
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a marbled floor ▪ a marbled silk scarf EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An old register, a large rectangular book with a marbled cover, rested on top of the desk. ▪ Between head and pillow, a hard rectangle was interposed, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble; "marbleized pink skin" [syn: marbleized , marbleised ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marble \Mar"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Marbling .] [Cf. F. marbrer. See Marble , n.] To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
Usage examples of marbled.
The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the ironclads receded slowly towards the coast, which was hidden still by a marbled bank of vapour, part steam, part black gas, eddying and combining in the strangest way.
He was flying again, going on trips up north and out west to photograph birds he never had before, the marbled godwit, the prairie falcon.
To my relief, my guard remained blessedly silent as we traversed its marbled halls, contenting himself with hovering behind me and scowling at everyone we passed.
The air was marbled with different colors: with glore and high gloze and the lava of ruby running off the warm bodies of the dogs as Soli unharnessed them.
Under a marbled sky, the Twenty-ninth Keep loomed, a square, buttressed fortress of verdigrised stone.
As soon as its contents had been arranged as attractively as possible on the clean white marbled oilcloth with which the stand was covered, and the coffee made and ready to serve, Theo handed Jimmy two dollars in dimes, nickels and pennies, to make change, and set off with the box of paste in his pocket, and the roll of rags under his arm.
There was lots of paper, fine marbled stock for endsheets, standard stock for the pages, colored papers and white sheets and some with a light creamy peach tone.
The Consul-General, Lord Quinnipiac, was a rough-featured man with blue marbled eyes set in a classically aristocratic horsey face.
Plunging down into the darkness, the cliff wall was a marbled gray with steplike ridges naturally chiseled into x.
The corn would be trucked to the cluster of huge grain silos just over the northern horizon and from there railed to feed lots from Nebraska to Missouri, to disappear down the throats of mindless castrated cattle, which would in turn be transformed into big fat marbled sirloins for rich assholes in New York and Tokyo.
Where he had painted so industriously, he now realized that the Petraseal was marbled with cracks, fine in places, broadening in others to allow the plants to burgeon forth.
Tentacles and twitching leg-stumps rained back down on the marbled valley, where, with a liquid slide, a half-transparent amoebal mass engulfed and dissolved them.
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom had not only been given the trappings of a marbled slipcase, leather binding, and beautiful endpapers, it had been printed like the King James Bible itself, on Bible paper, set in double columns of linotype.
Where he had painted so industriously, he now realized that the Petraseal was marbled with cracks, fine in places, broadening in others to allow the plants to burgeon forth.
The center span of the Causeway had become a ball of whitehurling its marbled shroud of cold dark matter into the night.