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Mottle

noun
1.
An irregular arrangement of patches of color.
verb
(past & past part. mottled; pres. part. mottling)
1.
Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained.  Synonyms: blotch, streak.
2.
Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.  Synonyms: cloud, dapple.





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"Mottle" Quotes from Famous Books



... flowers; but the view is broken by groves and clumps of copse-wood. The frondage is varied, its tints are vivid, its outlines soft and graceful. As I move forward, new landscapes open up continuously: views park-like and picturesque. Gangs of buffalo, herds of antelope, and droves of wild horses, mottle the far vistas. Turkeys run into the coppice, and pheasants whirr up from ...
— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid
... a singular preference is evinced for elephants that exhibit those flesh-coloured blotches which occasionally mottle the skin of an elephant, chiefly about the head and extremities. The front of the trunk, the tips of the ears, the forehead, and occasionally the legs, are thus diversified with stains of a yellowish tint, inclining to pink. These are not natural; nor are they hereditary, for they are seldom exhibited ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
... all sweets to bitterness!—Then I will mottle my face and wear a hump and be spurned outright. 'Twill ill serve me. 'Twill ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne


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