marbling
- n the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat
- v paint or stain like marble
- All his working life, from the early months of mottling, marbling and staining as a house decorator's apprentice in 1899 to the last grand studio in Varengeville with its sifting .
- As legend has it, the British marbling tourney traces its heritage to the days of Elizabethan chivalry.
- Later Egg-Hunter Sutton friends, and also their Canadian competitors, found more Harris's sparrow eggspale green with mottled brown marbling.