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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-layt] / ˈmæk jə lɪt, ˈmæk jəˌleɪt /








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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the maculate atmosphere of flat wine and stale cologne he had a sharp recurrence of the scent of pines, lifting warmly in sunny space.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

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

Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to maculate, to miracle, to mud, to mist, to mischief, to moral—also merchandized and musicked.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blake saw the crimson that dripped on her matting slippers and maculated the cream white of the mandarin coat.

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer

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

The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

But the pace was now so fast and their elevation so great that the landscape swimming beneath his vision was no more than a brownish plain fugitively maculated with blots of contrasting colour.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance


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