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sprinkled, ppl. a.|ˈsprɪŋk(ə)ld|
[f. sprinkle v.1]
1. Besprinkled (with moisture, colour, etc.). Also absol.
1382Wyclif Gen. xxxi. 12 Se alle the malis,..varye, and sprynklid, and spottid. 1781Cowper Charity 609 Relenting forms would lose their pow'r,..And ev'n the dipt and sprinkled live in peace. 1832J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & Moths 88 The Sprinkled Wainscot (Leucania suffusa) appears in June. 1888Jacobi Printer's Vocab. 130 Sprinkled edges, cut edges of books are sometimes finely sprinkled with colour to prevent them getting soiled.
2. Dispersed by, or as by, sprinkling.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 32 With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest. 1647H. More Minor Poems, Cupid's Conflict xlii, So Natures carelesse pencill..With sprinkled starres hath spattered the Night. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 335 With sprinkl'd Water first the City choak. 1700― Pal. & Arc. iii. 76 Some sprinkled Freckles on his Face were seen. 1862B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. (1866) 31 The sprinkled drops of moonshine flashed. |