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Marbling

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.

Marbling

Marbling \Mar"bling\, n.

  1. The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.

  2. An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.

  3. pl. (Zo["o]l.) Distinct markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and insects.

Wiktionary
marbling

n. 1 A mottled or streaky appearance 2 The process of adding such an appearance, especially as a decoration vb. (present participle of marble English)

WordNet
marbling

n. the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat

Wikipedia
Marbling

Marbling may refer to:

  • The quality of a surface that has streaks of color, like marble. For example:
    • Marbleizing, also called faux marbling, the art of painting walls or furniture to look like real marble
    • Paper marbling, a method of aqueous surface design in which paper or fabric is decorated with a spotted pattern similar to stone, as well as other swirled and combed patterns
    • Marbled meat, the pattern of fat in beef steaks
  • Marbling, a form of birth control in horse breeding, involving a marble used as an intrauterine device

Usage examples of "marbling".

Francis could not suppose that such massive marbling of old bones was a sweet conflation of ancient culture, modern coin, and self-apotheosizing.

The marblings of blood that swung from his thigh were like thin red leeches in the current.

Then, while chasing the sunset of one long and particularly melancholy day, the vanilla marbling in the sky going to raspberry red, holiday frosting dripping onto the stone jury of the mountains, she witnessed a remarkable sight: the flight of several thousand pounds of white Camaro through the clear liquor of a late desert afternoon, a movie image really, trailing the usual streamers of ragged unreality, the car some hundred yards ahead suddenly catapulting up out of a knot of braking traffic, flipping twice over with a dolphinlike incongruity, then slamming backward into the median gully in an explosion of dust and smoke and splintering glass.

The Castle Club was not so much a club as a glassed-in eating area with red fake-leather banquettes, Formica tables made to look like wood, and beveled mirrors shot through with faux gold marbling.