scumbles

Verb

scumble (third-person singular simple present scumbles, present participle scumbling, simple past and past participle scumbled)

1. To apply an opaque glaze to an area of a painting to make it softer or duller.
   • manure [...] dead leaves [...] and the odd unstomachable meal thrown or vomited there by this or that sensitive epicurean—all got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable topsoil in which anything could grow1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
2. To apply a painted pattern to the finish of a piece of furniture to simulate the woodgrain of another timber, as for example to give pine an appearance of oak.
   • scumbled pine

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