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First step is putting the material together and tying it tightly in variations of five basic shapes, known as rosettes, bunches, gathers, pleats and marblings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite its grim outline, Inge can be counted on to have loaded the whole with rich marblings of mawkishness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another admirable feature of this hybrid walnut is its smooth, grayish bark, with white marblings not unlike the Eastern sugar maple.

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.

They were now hideously lean; their skin was overlaid with bluish marblings.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

Ordinarily, the whites of the Captain's eyes had yellowish marblings; the yellow had now deepened to the hue of cayenne.

From The Story of Louie by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]