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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

V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

Are the diplomatic corps less maculate than in the days of Grenville Murray?

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill

Because the matter been so vile, It may nocht have ane ornate style; Wherefore I pray your Excellence To hear me with great patience: Of stinking weedis maculate No man nay mak ane rose-chaplet.

From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

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

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

Ten priests, in white vestments, maculated with red, stepped out to the centre of the altar.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

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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