A cloth made of wools dyed in different shades or colours and mixed before being spun. Cf. medley, n. 2. Obsolete.

Cloth woven from threads of two or more colours; a piece of this cloth. See also motley-maker n. at compounds 2. Now historical.

= marble, n. 4a. Obsolete.

A mottled or dappled colour resembling that of variegated marble; (also) a cloth of such a colour. Cf. sense B. 2. Obsolete.

Used as n., as if the name of a material or colour. Cf. vairy, adj. 2.

A variegated or mottled fabric, usually of subdued colouring.

Cloth woven from a variety of yarns or colours of thread; = mixture, n. 6. Also attributive or as adj.