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.
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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
To-morrow's papers would provide them with full accounts, the name of Susan Brundon among the maculate details....
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours.
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.
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Back in the ages, dusty, maculated, Across the slate-hued fogs of time, Behold them!—oblongs of sliding water And cubed banks, Bridges and barges, blatantly, wonderfully, inconceivably angular, Calling, clamouring—canal, canal, canal!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various
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
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
For, instead of a siliceous ground, maculated with the rhombic feld-spar, which is the common state of porphyry, the ground is uniformly crystallised, or a homogeneous regular feld-spar, maculated with the transparent siliceous substance.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
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Love's Labour's Lost
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