| 单词 | marble-covered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarble-covered 2. Patterned like marble; mottled, dappled, variegated; decorated with marbling; made of cloth, etc., of such a pattern (cf. sense A. 4a). Frequently in marble-coloured adj., marble-covered adj., marble-edged adj. †Occasionally used predicatively. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > marbled marblea1450 marblya1450 marbled1629 marly1721 marbleized1851 the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > marbled > artificially marbled1667 marble1703 a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 34 Take a lytyl Saunderys & a lytyl Safroun, & make it a marbyl coloure. 1539 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 91 To William Cay my marbill jacket. 1545 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 230 My marbell colered cote. 1591 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 54 I geve Willm Cooke my marble hose. 1703 London Gaz. No. 3930/4 An Almanack..with a Marble Vellum Cover. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4108/3 77 half Chests of Marble-Soap. 1766 Let. 25 Nov. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 911 Memorandum of Sundries which Messrs. Pomeroys and Hodgkin of London are desired to Ship..12 pieces Callico Marble ground..10 pieces Marble ground. 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife II. xxviii. 74 Countless marble-covered octavos. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 120 3-thread fine marble stockings. 1817 T. F. Dibdin Bibliogr. Decameron II. 533 The peau de veau of the French, with gilt upon marble edges! 1876 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (new ed.) vii. 76 Marble silk had a weft of several colours so woven as to make the whole web look like marble. 1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 99/2 The foyer..is full of girls..dressed in marble denim and pastels. < as lemmas |
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