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ˈmarble-stone Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: see marble n.; also marm-stone.
[Cf. chalkstone, limestone.]
= marble; a marble floor, monument, tomb, etc.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 145 Hie [marie magdalene]..nam ane box ȝemaked of marbelstone. a1225Leg. Kath. 1489 Þu schalt habben..of marbrestan a temple. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9787 Þe point of is suerd brec in þe marbreston a tuo. c1386Chaucer Prioress' T. 229 In a temple of Marbul stones cleere Enclosen they his litel body sweete. c1430Lydg. Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 50 Harde to lyke hony out of a marble stone. 1530Palsgr. 530/1 Water by often droppyng may make a hole in a marbyll stone. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. vi, In the middest of the pauement which was of Marber stone. 1682Creech Lucretius (1683) 94 If that's an Ill, why not as great an one To be opprest with Earth, or Marble-stone? 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad li, I met a statue standing still. Still in marble stone stood he, And stedfastly he looked at me. |