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mottle
[ mot-l ]
verb (used with object)
- to mark or diversify with spots or blotches of a different color or shade.
noun
- a diversifying spot or blotch of color.
- mottled coloring or pattern.
mottle
/ ˈ³¾É’³ÙÉ™±ô /
verb
- tr to colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
noun
- a mottled appearance, as of the surface of marble
- one streak or blotch of colour in a mottled surface
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¾´Ç³Ùt±ô±ð·³¾±ð²Ô³Ù noun
- ³¾´Ç³Ùt±ô±ð°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mottle1
Example Sentences
More than a century later, fine particles of pollution still clung to its feathers, dulling what once was a scarlet red breast to a mottled gray.
But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.
As dawn breaks and dusk settles, the play of light and shadow turns the river green or gunmetal gray, lustrously pearlescent or mottled brown.
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.
He describes Christmas Lima beans, a colorful, mottled American variety popular in the Southwestern U.S., as a “gateway bean.â€
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