maculate
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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.
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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."
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His wasted palms rested on knees that resembled bones draped with maculate clothing; his sere head fell forward.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours.
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Transubstantiation or consubstantiation, conception, maculate or immaculate, were a matter of small moment with him.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.
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But the pace was now so fast and their elevation so great that the landscape swimming beneath his vision was no more than a brownish plain fugitively maculated with blots of contrasting colour.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
This was a particularly repulsive specimen of its breed; grimy with hardened dust and gummed oil, maculated with yellow-surface-rust, the brasswork green with corrosion.
From Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper
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
The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
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Love's Labour's Lost
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