| 单词 | mottle-faced |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmottle-faced = mottled adj. Chiefly in parasynthetic compounds, as mottle-faced, mottle-leaved, etc., adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > mottled marled1502 gangean1623 mottle1676 mottled1676 scovy1777 mottledy1929 1676 London Gaz. No. 1153/4 A light gray Gelding,..motle Nosed. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1308/4 Lost..a..Spaniel Dog, belonging to His Majesty, his legs and nose mottel. 1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 628/2 Ascribing to that mottle-faced luminary [sc. the moon], the changes of the weather, the growth of potatoes, and the shrinking of boiled beef. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 2 One mottle-legged, chubby-cheeked boy. 1925 I. Irwin in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 1 Montjoy himself, big-nosed, mottle-faced, dull-eyed, the puce of his suit the exact shade of his hard cheeks. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 509/1 The liver weighed 4300g and grossly had a mottle appearance. 1991 Pract. Gardening Dec. 13/1 The mottle-leaved honeysuckle Lonicera japonica ‘Aureo Reticulata’, vinca and clematis ‘Jackmanii’ are used to hang over walls and creep among the plants in the raised bed. < as lemmas |
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