maculate
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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.
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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."
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V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Colette's foul walls and maculate table-linen, and even down to Colette's villainous casters, seemed like objects in a nightmare.
From Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson
From this black hour, this curse anointing hour, The currents of thy heart are all corrupt; The motions of thy thoughts are serpentine; And thy death-doing and bedabbled soul Is maculate with spots of Erebus.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.
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It fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
Back in the ages, dusty, maculated, Across the slate-hued fogs of time, Behold them!—oblongs of sliding water And cubed banks, Bridges and barges, blatantly, wonderfully, inconceivably angular, Calling, clamouring—canal, canal, canal!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various
Our specimen of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is referred to velox on the basis of the reddish, maculated breast, sides, and thighs.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban
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