mottled
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Bartram's bass display a light golden color with dark brown blotches along their sides, a mottled belly, and fins with a rosy tint.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
The entire upper half of the canvas is an abstraction of mottled brushstrokes ranging from charcoal gray to a deep velvety black that surrounds the head like a heavy halo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
The earliest such representations were found on a mottled pink sandstone dating back about 2,000 years and began to be recognised through the sacred symbol of an endless knot on the teachers' chest.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
In 2001, there were only 62 mature Iberian lynx — medium-sized, mottled brown cats with characteristic pointed ears and a pair of beard-like tufts of facial hair — on the Iberian Peninsula.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024
“I hear your wife’s frock never turned up in time,” said someone with a mottled face and a sailor’s pigtail, and he laughed, and dug Maxim in the ribs.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing mottled
Of Mice and Men
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