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mottled

[ mot-ld ]

adjective

  1. spotted or blotched in coloring.


mottled

/ ˈ³¾É’³ÙÉ™±ô»å /

adjective

  1. coloured with streaks or blotches of different shades
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mottled1

First recorded in 1670–80; mottle + -ed 2
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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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