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mottle

[ mot-l ]

verb (used with object)

mottled, mottling.
  1. to mark or diversify with spots or blotches of a different color or shade.


noun

  1. a diversifying spot or blotch of color.
  2. mottled coloring or pattern.

mottle

/ ˈ³¾É’³ÙÉ™±ô /

verb

  1. tr to colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a mottled appearance, as of the surface of marble
  2. one streak or blotch of colour in a mottled surface
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾´Ç³Ùt±ô±ð·³¾±ð²Ô³Ù noun
  • ³¾´Ç³Ùt±ô±ð°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mottle1

First recorded in 1670–80; probably back formation from motley
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mottle1

C17: back formation from motley
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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.

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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.

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As dawn breaks and dusk settles, the play of light and shadow turns the river green or gunmetal gray, lustrously pearlescent or mottled brown.

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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.

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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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