maculate

Example Sentences

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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

But they had no history to be written; and were too closely maculate to be portrayed;—white ground in most places altogether obscured.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John

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 Hergesheimer, Joseph

The room was long, dark, narrow, slovenly, spaced with tables on which were maculate cloths and lamps with faded shades.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar