mottle

mottle
v
1. dapple, dot, spot, bespot, speckle, be-speckle, stipple, fleck, bedaub, maculate, freckle, sprinkle, spangle, pepper; water, damascene or damaskeen, variegate, motley, polychrome; striate, stripe, streak, marbelize, marble.
n
2. dapple, dot, spot, point, fleck, patch, watermark; speck, speckle, shot, tittle, jot; stipple, stripe, strip, streak, dash, wave, squiggle.
3. mottledness, dappledness, dapple, stipple, stippling, pointillism, pointillage, spottiness, maculation, speckledness, dottedness; striation, striature, stripe, striping, streaking, marbelizing; variegation, multicolor, pleochroism, irisation, polychrome, opalescence, iridescence, Philately. burele' or burelage.

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