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English
Etymology
From be- + marble + -ed.
Adjective
bemarbled (comparative more bemarbled, superlative most bemarbled)
- Composed of marble.
- Synonym: marbled
1970, Len De Caux, “The Unions—A Mixed Bag”, in Labor Radical: From the Wobblies to CIO: A Personal History, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, section I (Viewpoint), page 141:Not till many years later did labor skates compete with modernistic, beglassed, bemarbled headquarters for their greater glory.
1990, Patricia Bayer, “Art Deco in Public Places: Transport, Theatres and Cinemas, Stores, Hotels, Bars and Offices”, in Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s, New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson Inc., published 2000, →ISBN, page 145:Interiors could be of the elegant, graduated pastel-hued Streamline Moderne variety – like the Muswell Hill Odeon (well maintained today) and the Woolwich Odeon – or they could be baroque extravaganzas, like the Tooting Granada (1931; conceived as a neo-Gothic cathedral by its creator, Theodore Komisarjevsky), or the Gaumont State in Kilburn, George Coles’s 1937 begilt, bemarbled and bejewelled palais.
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