The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scumbling \Scum"bling\, n.
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(Fine Arts)
A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing.
In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.
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The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.
Shining above the brown scumbling of leafless orchards.
--L. Wallace.
Scumble \Scum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scumbling.] [Freq. of scum. [root] 158.] (Fine Arts) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.
Wiktionary
n. An application of scumbling; an opaque glaze. vb. (present participle of scumble English)
Usage examples of "scumbling".
After the stint at the Ritz, the movie star was given three rooms in Sisodia's cavernous, designer--chic flat in an old mansion block near Grosvenor Square, all Art Deco marbled floors and scumbling on the walls.
He lifted a fan-ended scumbling brush and twirled it deftly around two fingers.
Then, as quickly as a trap taking a rat, the wolf snapped back around Bob and he fell down, his jaw working, growls scumbling in the thick mucus that was the waste matter of these furious changes.