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splotched

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splotch  (splch)
n.
An irregularly shaped spot, stain, or colored or discolored area: "spectacular splotches of color and beauty in the blossoms" (Wendy Lyon Moonan).
tr.v. splotched, splotch·ing, splotch·es
To mark with splotches or a splotch.

[Perhaps blend of spot, blot and botch.]

splotchi·ness n.
splotchy adj.
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Adj.1.splotched - marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots
patterned - having patterns (especially colorful patterns)


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Harris's body was simply a chamois-pasture; his person was populous with the little hungry pests; his skin, when he stripped, was splotched like a scarlet-fever patient's; so, when we were about to enter one of the Leukerbad inns, and he noticed its sign, "Chamois Hotel," he refused to stop there.
But, sinister discovery, blood, still wet, splotched the magnificent jewels of the setting.
 
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