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MOTTLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having spots or patches of color
Synonyms:
dappled; mottled
Classified under:
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb mottle
Context examples:
“A child would know Silver Blaze, with his white forehead and his mottled off-foreleg.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The whole face of the country was scarred and disfigured, mottled over with the black blotches of burned farm-steadings, and the gray, gaunt gable-ends of what had been chateaux.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Cutting diagonally across the mottled plans is the long extensional fault of Inanna Fossa, which stretches eastward 370 miles (600 kilometers) from here to the western edge of the great nitrogen ice plains of Sputnik Planum.
(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)
Down in the courtyard half-clad wretches, their bare limbs all mottled with blood-stains, strutted about with plumed helmets upon their heads, or with the Lady Rochefort's silken gowns girt round their loins and trailing on the ground behind them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So for five long minutes the gallant horsemen of Spain and of France strove ever and again to force a passage, until the wailing note of a bugle called them back, and they rode slowly out of bow-shot, leaving their best and their bravest in the ghastly, blood-mottled heap behind them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
