scrambles

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We see an arch, then he rubs his wet cloth around it and scumbles of blue appear, then a farmhouse, almond green feathery strokes of what may be a tree.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2016

Across the surface, gossamer scumbles of paint proceed, appropriately, without a care, rising into the pale greens of the trees.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2010

With scumbles he completed the colour and the modelling.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

It is perhaps owing partly to patina on the old glass, which "scumbles" it; but I have myself sometimes succeeded in getting the same >effect by using yellow-stain on pure white glass.

From Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass by Whall, C. W.