marled
Americanadjective
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A huggable gray marled knit featured the brand name emblazoned across it and led the way for myriad shaggy, multicolor retro looks that came across as part-Woodstock, part mythical yeti.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Rogen wore a beard, chinos, a cardigan from the Japanese brand Needles and Birkenstocks with marled socks — laid-back Canyon chic.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2021
The sweater was a sort of marled gray, as though the wool had quite recently been removed from an unwashed sheep, and it made the wearer’s torso look like an egg.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019
In my slow dredge of the sale, I find gems: those beautiful Antwerp monstrosities or underappreciated American heritage brands or marled Shetland sweaters that haven’t been picked over just yet.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2018
They are then "marled" from end to end, and used in various ways, viz. to bind the messenger to the cable, and to form slings for wet spars, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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