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单词 flecked
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flecked
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adj

Flecked means "dotted" or "speckled." Your favorite of all your backyard chickens might be the white and gray flecked hen.
You could say that a chocolate cake sprinkled with glitter is flecked, or describe a snow flecked field in late November. Your favorite curtains in your grandmother's house might be the pink flecked ones that hang in the kitchen. The verb fleck means to dot or scatter, and it comes from an Old Norse root word, flekka, "to spot."
WORD FAMILY
fleck: flecked, flecking, flecks
USAGE EXAMPLES
A lone electric guitar is picked slowly in a sustained electronic ambience, mostly a drone that’s flecked with bits of voices run backwards.
New York Times(Dec 23, 2016)
Unwisely tamped down, Mr. Smith delivers a generally monotonal performance flecked with grimaces and frowns.
New York Times(Dec 15, 2016)
But what yak wool lacks in terms of the spectrum, it makes up for with its naturally flecked appearance.
Wall Street Journal(Nov 22, 2016)
adj having a pattern of dots
Syn
dotted, specked, speckled, stippled
patterned
having patterns (especially colorful patterns)
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