maculate
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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."
From Time Magazine Archive
But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.
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 Hergesheimer, Joseph
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
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
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