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marbled adj : patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble; "marbleized pink skin" [syn: marbleized, marbleised]

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English

Adjective

  1. Composed of marble; having a marble exterior.
    • , IV.iii
      Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears;
      Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face
      Hath to the marbled mansion all above
      Never presented!
  2. Having marbling.

Verb

marbled
  1. past of marble

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

banded, barred, brinded, brindle, brindled, calico, clouded, dapple, dappled, listed, marbleized, motley, mottled, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, skewbald, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, veined, watered
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