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Mottle

noun
1.
An irregular arrangement of patches of color.
verb
(past & past part. mottled; pres. part. mottling)
1.
Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained.  Synonyms: blotch, streak.
2.
Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.  Synonyms: cloud, dapple.





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"Mottle" Quotes from Famous Books



... which is characteristic of soaps made from cocoa-nut oil and palm-kernel oil, is taken advantage of, as are also the physical properties of the various fats and oils, with a view to the crystallisation of the resultant soap and the development of the mottle. The fat is saponified, grained and boiled on strength, as previously described. After withdrawing the half-spent lye, the soap is just closed by boiling with water, and is then ready for the ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons
... upon which women so often wreck or effect harbor, whichever it may be. All at once she looked up from the dazzling mosaic of the window and saw the dead partridges and grouse hanging in their rumpled brown mottle of plumage, and the dead rabbits, long and stark, with their fur pointed with frost, hanging in a piteous headlong company, and all her delight and wonder vanished, and she came down to the hard actualities of things. ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


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