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▪ I. marbling, vbl. n.|ˈmɑːblɪŋ|
[f. marble v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. marble.
1. The process, practice, or art of staining paper, etc. with variegated colours in imitation or conventional imitation of marble.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2197/4 A New Art..of Making, Marbling, Veining, and Finishing of Mantle-pieces. 1731Bailey vol. II, Marbling of Books (in Book-binding) the sprinkling them with colours on the outside. 1753in Patents Specif., Skins etc. (1872) 3 For the making, marbling, veining [etc.] any linen, silks, canvas, paper, and leather. 1901Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 9/6 Graining and Marbling wanted.
2. concr.
a. Colouring or marking resembling that of marble, or some conventional imitation of it.
1727–52Chambers Cycl. s.v. Porcelain, There is..a kind of marbled porcelain, which is not made by applying the marblings with the pencil. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. VII. 7 The only marblings, which appear in its body, are the colour of the food, which is seen through its transparent intestines. 1883Solon Art Old Eng. Potter 93 Agate-ware was a complicated process; the marbling, instead of being produced on the surface, went through the body. 1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. (1896) I. 97 Marblings and spots of light brown or reddish-brown. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 103 In children infested by fleas or lice the general tint of the rash may be deepened by very numerous petechiæ or by ‘marbling’.
b. In meat: the quality or state of having the lean streaked with thin layers of fat. Cf. marbled ppl. a. 2 c.
1925W. H. Tomhave Meats & Meat Products xvii. 203 Marbling is always present in ribs, loins, and chucks. 1929Daily Express 7 Nov. 3/4 There are certain indications by which the official graders can detect clearly whether or not there is ‘marbling’ in the beef while it is in the side. 1963New Yorker 22 June 21 Marbling is the most important thing in a steak. 1972T. McHugh Time of Buffalo xxiii. 311 Despite the greater cost, buffalo meat is not overpriced, for its marked leanness entails less fatty marbling and less trimming.
3. A marble-like incrustation. rare.
1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. i. 21 The summit piercing through a marbling of perpetual snow up to the height of ten thousand feet.
4. Comb.: marbling-rod, the rod or pole used in the apparatus for glazing marbled paper; marbling trough, the trough into which the paper is dipped in the process of marbling.
1835J. Hannett Bibliopegia 82 After this they [the books] must be glaired equally over, and when dry placed upon the marbling rods, the sides of the books extending over, and the leaves hanging between. Ibid. 184 The marbling trough is generally made of oak.
▪ II. marbling, ppl. a.|ˈmɑːblɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
= marbled ppl. a. 2 c.
1958Times 8 Dec. (Suppl.) p. viii/3 Tender beef can be produced..from older animals that are well-finished, i.e., in which there has been considerable deposition of ‘marbling’ fat between the muscle bundles. 1971Country Life 9 Sept. 643/3 The older mature animal that is well finished can still provide meat of a high quality, due in part to the intimate penetration of ‘marbling fat’ into the deep muscle tissue. |