marbling

1. A mottling or streaking that resembles marble.
2. The process or operation of giving something the surface appearance of marble.
3. The decorative imitation of marble patterns printed on page edges and endpapers of books.
4. Flecks or thin strips of fat, especially when evenly distributed in a cut of meat.

Flecks or thin streaks of fat that run throughout a piece of meat, enhancing its flavor, tenderness and juiciness. Very lean cuts of meat are sometimes artificially marbled (see lard v.).

1. the presence of different stages of congestion and necrosis in adjoining lobules of an organ, giving a gross effect of a pattern similar to that of marble.
2. the desirable intermixing of fat and muscle fibers in good beef produced by feeding a high energy diet when the animal is still young.

Marbling is the quality of a surface that has streaks of color, like marble. For example:

• Faux Painting, Faux finishing or faux marbling, the art of painting walls or furniture to look like real marble.
• Paper marbling, a method of aqueous surface design in which paper or fabric is decorated with a spotted pattern similar to stone, as well as other swirled and combed patterns.
• Marbled meat, the pattern of fat in beef steaks
• Birth control in equines (i.e. mares)

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