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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-leyt] / ˈmæk jə lɪt, ˈmæk jəˌleɪt /








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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."

From Time Magazine Archive

The room was long, dark, narrow, slovenly, spaced with tables on which were maculate cloths and lamps with faded shades.

From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus

Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to maculate, to miracle, to mud, to mist, to mischief, to moral—also merchandized and musicked.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

Are the diplomatic corps less maculate than in the days of Grenville Murray?

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill

That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blake saw the crimson that dripped on her matting slippers and maculated the cream white of the mandarin coat.

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer

Ten priests, in white vestments, maculated with red, stepped out to the centre of the altar.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

It fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce

Our specimen of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is referred to velox on the basis of the reddish, maculated breast, sides, and thighs.

From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban




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