marled
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From a contracted form of marble + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]marled (comparative more marled, superlative most marled)
- (chiefly Scotland) Mottled, streaked, multicoloured.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 49:
- The Standing Stones reared up above the two, marled and streaked with snow they were, and a wind came blowing fit to freeze the chilblains on a brass monkey as they stood and glowered one at the other.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]marled
- simple past and past participle of marl