maculate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And I was shown in that Vision the Calvaries of maternity common to all, whether the conception be immaculate, so-called if within the law, or maculate, so-called if without the law.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

Colette's foul walls and maculate table-linen, and even down to Colette's villainous casters, seemed like objects in a nightmare.

From Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis