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FLECKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a pattern of dots
Synonyms:
dotted; flecked; specked; speckled; stippled
Classified under:
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fleck
Context examples:
A blue heaven stretched above, a green rolling plain undulated below, intersected with hedge-rows and flecked with grazing sheep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There, clinging to the stout halliards of the sheet, he gazed with amazement at the long lines of black waves, each with its curling ridge of foam, racing in endless succession from out the inexhaustible west. A huge sombre cloud, flecked with livid blotches, stretched over the whole seaward sky-line, with long ragged streamers whirled out in front of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Over the gently rising plain curved the white road which leads inland, usually flecked with travellers, but now with scarce a living form upon it, so completely had the lists drained all the district of its inhabitants.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From Vinney Ridge to Rhinefield Walk the woods grow thick and dense up to the very edges of the track, but beyond the country opens up into broad dun-colored moors, flecked with clumps of trees, and topping each other in long, low curves up to the dark lines of forest in the furthest distance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
