MARBLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marbled mean? 

• MARBLED (adjective)
  The adjective MARBLED has 1 sense:

1. patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble

  Familiarity information: MARBLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARBLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble

Synonyms:

marbled; marbleised; marbleized

Context example:

marbleized pink skin

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

The west, too, was warm: no watery gleam chilled it—it seemed as if there was a fire lit, an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ultimately, having been highly prized for centuries, the marbled appearance of walrus ivory fell out of favour as West African trade routes opened up, and the homogenous finish of elephant ivory became de rigueur in the 13th century.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)