bemarbledとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

bemarbled (comparative more bemarbled, superlative most bemarbled)

1. Composed of marble.

   Synonym: marbled

   • 1890, Arthur Lillie, “Fortune’s Buffets and Rewards”, in The Cobra Diamond […], volume I, London: Ward and Downey, […], →OCLC, page 114:

     A vast club begilt and bemarbled is the modern temple.

   • 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.