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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-leyt] / 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

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

To-morrow's papers would provide them with full accounts, the name of Susan Brundon among the maculate details....

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

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

A shell had maculated the wall on each side and above the statue, but the little niche and canopy were quite untouched.

From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston




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