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Marlit, a. Also: marlet, -ed, marllit, marlt, marld, marrillit. [? MF. merelé (15th c.) chequered, f. merelle, marelle, a counter, a game played with counters or pebbles on a board criss-crossed with lines. Common in the mod. dial. as marled, marl(e)t, merilit, merled, mirled. Cf. also Merlit a.] Chequered, variegated, parti-coloured, having a veined or streaked pattern or markings. 1546–7 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS. XXIII. 151.
Twa marlit couerlettis for beddis
1568 Edinb. Test. I. 215.
Foure marlit silken beltis
1571 Ib. II. 192 b.
Worsat marlit gartanes
1581 Ib. IX. 184 b.
xxxvj boltis of marlit worsat pasmentis
1585 Ib. XV. 26 b.
Marlit drogat
1597 Ib. XXXI. 177.
Ane pair of marlit plaidis
1612 Monipennie Chron. in Misc. Scot. I. 172.
They delight to wear marled clothes specially that have long stripes of sundry coloures
1614 Crim. Trials III. 266.
Steilling … of ane pair of fyne marrillit plaidis
1628 Colquhoun Chart. II. 199.
Our bag pyppis and marlit plaidis serwit ws to guid wise in the persuit of ane man of warr
1635 Haddington Corr. II. 300. 1644 Edinb. Test. LXI. 69.
Marllit
1651 Ib. LXV. 140.
Marlet
1651 Buccleuch Mun. II. 290.
Sex pair of blew marld blankitts
1653 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 300.
One pair of marlt plaids
1680 Moncreiffs 666. 1692 Sc. N. & Q. 2 Ser. II. 92. 1700 Foulis Acc. Bk. 270.
To my sone Wm to pay for printing his theses, marled paper and guilding

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