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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-leyt] / ˈmæk yə lɪt, ˈmæk yəˌleɪt /








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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

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

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

In the maculate atmosphere of flat wine and stale cologne he had a sharp recurrence of the scent of pines, lifting warmly in sunny space.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

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




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