a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
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a small ball of glass that is used in various games
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a sculpture carved from marble
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paint or stain like marble
<verb.creation> marble paper
Marble \Mar"ble\ (m[aum]r"b'l), n. [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor, fr. Gr. ma`rmaros, fr. marmai`rein to sparkle, flash. Cf. {Marmoreal}.] 1. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
Note:
{Breccia marble} consists of limestone fragments cemented together.
{Ruin marble}, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins, due to disseminated iron oxide.
{Shell marble} contains fossil shells.
{Statuary marble} is a pure, white, fine-grained kind, including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal.
2. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
3. A little ball of glass, marble, porcelain, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds; when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means, hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as, marble-breasted, marble-faced, marble-hearted.
Marble \Mar"ble\, a. 1. Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
2. Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
Marble \Mar"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marbling}.] [Cf. F. marbrer. See {Marble}, n.] To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
Of course the grand arcade of Le Corbusier's Chandigarh courts comes to mind - but here is marble, plaster and golden stone, not sad and stained concrete.
A sequence of open-air rooms, frescoed with abundant foliage and lined with flower beds, eases the transition between garden and house. The garden of Herculaneum's grand Villa of the Stags has supplied much of the finest marble statuary in the show.
Veronese extends that landscape indoors, confecting romantic vistas beyond trompe l'oeil marble balustrades and rustic scenes reflecting the four seasons. Allegorical figures celebrate the pleasures of music.
The explosion merely singed the carpet, nicked a desk, blew a few holes in the ceiling and loosened marble counter panels.
The design (Julian McGowan), of ornate statuary dotted around marble halls, is subverted by the frock-coats and laurels of the Romans.
Hundreds paraded in front of the new marble mausoleum where Allende's remains were reburied one week ago at Santiago's main cemetery.
His assets, including a $500,000 peach colored stucco home laden with Italian marble, have been seized.
Bricklayers do more than lay bricks: Among other things, they lay tile, build stone arches, and work with marble.
Another offer came from a homeowner "who wanted to see if he could get some marble for a pool-decking," Thompson said.
Lounging on the marble floor of his showroom is one customer's unclaimed white Pekinese dog, one of many small pets that Mistry has lovingly freeze-dried for their grieving owners.
Kennedy looked solemn as he entered the chamber, strode past the American flag, stood before the pale marble columns and took his seat at the end of the row of nine justices.
The station is an enormous pile of granite and marble, bulging with muscular horses and men and sheathed in semi-Roman vaulting.
Several thousand rods of titanium are being drilled into the 30,000-ton marble edifice.
The structure, made of wood with a synthetic marble coating, resembles the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Ms. True said a painstaking study of the marble head by scientists and art experts had answered many of the questions surrounding the head of Achilles, a mythological hero slain by an arrow to his heel.
Walls had been knocked out to enlarge the cells, which were then outfitted with marble baths, a pool table, air conditioning, guest quarters and wardrobes crammed with dozens of silk shirts.
The yellowing film on the marble is absorbed by the clay after being washed away by the detergents, Sahi said.
In Lucca he gloried in 'church fronts charged with heavenly sculpture and inlaid with whole histories in marble', but in such a parlous state of decay that he felt obliged to record them.
A huge pepper tree is the centerpiece of the two-acre garden of marble and granite where most graves bear the inscription: "Rest in Peace." "We suffered extensive damage to the upright stones in four cemeteries," said Dias.
Its two-story lobby is paneled in Italian marble.
Ornate marble crosses were shattered to bits.
Rain forests were added to the agenda by environmentalists who pushed 12 wheelbarrows into the marble lobby of the U.N. headquarters and dumped petitions with 3 million signatures asking the world body to save the forests.
"Long live, long live," shouted people at Victory Square when Bush's black armored limousine pulled up in front of the marble tomb, which was flanked by a military band and honor guard.
Several marble blocs are marked with the imperial seal.
Whole tuna lay on marble slabs being cut into steaks by brigands with scimitars, which they slid along the fish until the buyer said 'cut'. Tuna are handsome, fish-shaped fish, their reputation much harmed by tins. Espada are not.
There are only five marble factories in the U.S. today, four in West Virginia and Ohio and one in Illinois.
The painting, entitled "North Entry Hall at Christmas," shows boughs of evergreens draping the white marble columns of the Cross Hall, the great hall that leads from the State Dining Room to the East Room.
Near the heart of the ancient city, the waters reduced the path to a jumble of stone blocks and columns fashioned from Egyptian granite and Italian marble.
Two years ago the museum discovered that a marble "Head of Achilles" in its collection was a modern copy.
The hope of marble sustains them in their frantic anonymity.