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Meanings of mottled in inglês

Marked with spots of a different colour.

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Examples for "spotted"
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The flag was also spotted at a bar in Sea Point recently.
The South African
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And some others said they didn't think the changes spotted were serious.
The Irish Times
3
Senior officials in Dublin spotted the issue directly after the Brexit vote.
The Irish Times
4
Four Mantimahle male lions were recently spotted 'patrolling' the Kruger National Park.
The South African
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The operation appears to have been spotted by rival organisations in Europe.
The Guardian
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You see that lady in the red speckled silk at that table.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
2
Frenchmans eat his hind legs; they say the speckled beast much good.
Roughing It in the Bush
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That means she's a roan, a kind of speckled red and gray.
Karen Memory
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It is of the small speckled kind, and about eight inches long.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1
5
We stood and breathed deeply, as light dappled through the snow-speckled pines.
The Guardian
1
The ceiling was dappled with waves of light reflected off the water.
The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
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Most are already home or nearly there in the sun-dappled, late afternoon.
The Irish Times
3
A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
A Man Four-Square
4
A thyrsus in your hand, and the dappled hide of a deer.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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We stood and breathed deeply, as light dappled through the snow-speckled pines.
The Guardian
Usage of mottled in inglês
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Above the line of the beard the skin was mottled and puffy.
The Street Called Straight
2
His muscles were beginning to bulge; his skin produced mottled, hairy patches.
The hunchback assignments
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Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good-yearof forebodings!
Leaves of Grass
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Ahmoses reached a mottled hand into his robes, and produced a scroll.
The heretic queen
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He said the whale's mottled skin suggested it was in poor health.
News.com.au
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Those snakes with the mottled yellow and brown backs are water moccasins.
Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie
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Speckled or mottled Barbs are esteemed the most common of all pigeons.
The Book of Household Management
8
Their colours are green, variously tinted and mottled with red or purple.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
9
The ripe seeds are dull-white or greenish-white, mottled and clouded with purple.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America / Containing Full Des...
10
Moving away, staff in his mottled hand, walking, he broke into song.
To Die in Italbar
11
A big-boned mottled horse, once evidently a beauty, was between the shafts.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
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Her hands where they gripped the purse were mottled, trembling with tension.
The Lunatic Cafe
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A weak acid bath leaves an ugly mottled surface on brass work.
On Laboratory Arts
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All in all, the 1971 Masters was a rather uneven, mottled tournament.
The new yorker
15
Down here spiders still lived, disturbingly big ones with mottled gray bodies.
The gunslinger
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Even his robe was banded and mottled, albeit in silk and jewels.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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