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单词 marble colours
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marble colours
marble colours n. Obsolete (figurative) something which lends the appearance of beauty or order, esp. in order to conceal something unattractive (as paint over rotten wood); outward show; ostentation.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvii. sig. A a 3 Shall I labour to lay marble coulours ouer my ruinous thoughts?
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy v. ii. sig. M2v And wherefore should you lay faire marble colours, Vpon your rotten purposes to me?
1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 48 The marble colours, of..funerall Pompe.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 41 The marble Colours of false Greatness.
extracted from marblen.adj.
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