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marbled, ppl. a.|ˈmɑːb(ə)ld|
[f. marble n. and v. + -ed.]
1. In various occasional uses: Portrayed in marble; having buildings or sculptures of marble; turned into marble (fig.); decorated or covered with marble.
1599Storer Wolsey C 4 b, Looke how the God of Wisdome marbled stands, Bestowing Laurel wreathes. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 143 Marbled effigies and monumental deposits of the renowned. 1821Byron Juan iii. lxxxvi. xvi, Place me on Sunium's marbled steep. 1844Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes, Scott at Tomb of Stuarts 132 His marbled form will meet the attentive eye. 1851G. Meredith Sleeping City 109 A marbled City planted there With all its pageants and despair. 1885H. O. Forbes Nat. Wand. E. Archip. 6 Fine residences..conspicuous by the blaze of light that lit up their pillared and marbled fronts.
2. Variegated in colour like certain marbles.
a. Coloured or stained by a technical process with variegated patterns.
1671Boyle Usef. Nat. Philos. II. iv. 14 Those fine Covers of Books that, for their resemblance to speckld Marble, are wont to be call'd Marbled. 1699Wanley in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 276 Common marbled paper. a1769S. Davies Whalley in Dodsley Coll. Poems (1782) V. 106 Variety of troops..In marbled regimentals. 1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iv. 242/1 The edge of marbled books should correspond with their marbled ends.
b. Veined, mottled, or dappled (with markings of various colours). Chiefly Nat. Hist. and Path.
1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. 18 The snow was marbel'd, and look'd as if it were boughs and branches of Trees. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 557 At the break of morning light, When the marbled Sky looks gay. 1818Art Preserv. Feet 154 If the chilblain is merely neglected, the skin..becomes livid and of a marbled appearance. 1890Woodbury Encycl. Photogr., Marbled Prints, a defect in printing... The prints appear..unevenly marked, somewhat resembling the appearance of marble. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 462 It [i.e. an eruption on the skin] may be uniform, or figured, or marbled.
c. Of meat: Having the lean streaked with thin layers of fat. (A sign of the best quality.)
1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) IV. 355 There is no better sign of good flesh, than when it is marbled. 1834Youatt Cattle 270 The meat is finely marbled and well-flavoured.
3. Used as the specific designation of various animals and plants which have mottled or dappled markings (freq. = L. specific name marmoratus, -a).
marbled beauty, the moth Bryophila perla; marbled green, the moth Bryophila glandifera; marbled white (butterfly), Arge galathea; marbled rose (see rose n.).
1699Petiver Musei Petiver. 33 The white marbled female Butterfly. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 164 The Marbled Rose,..its Leaves are larger, of a light red Colour marbled and veined. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 95 The..Marbled Cat (F[elis] marmorata). 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 762 The common long red or marbled mangel-würzel. 1867H. T. Stainton Brit. Butterflies & Moths iii. 31 The Marbled White Butterfly. Ibid. vi. 66 The Marbled Beauty. 1870Eng. Mech. 25 Feb. 571/2 The Marbled Green (Bryophila glandifera). 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 595/2 The Marbled White (Arge galathea) is the species often met with in Britain. |