FLECKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flecked mean? 

• FLECKED (adjective)
  The adjective FLECKED has 1 sense:

1. having a pattern of dots

  Familiarity information: FLECKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLECKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a pattern of dots

Synonyms:

dotted; flecked; specked; speckled; stippled

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

Beneath lay a broad carpet of the softest and greenest moss, flecked over with fallen leaves, but yielding pleasantly to the foot of the traveller.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wind made talking difficult, and flecked the blood into the face.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sleeves rolled up from soap-flecked arms and a wet gunny-sack around her waist told of the task at which she had been caught.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He staggered limply about, the blood flowing from nose and mouth and ears, his beautiful coat sprayed and flecked with bloody slaver.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His lips were flecked with a soapy froth, and sometimes he choked and gurgled and became inarticulate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She looked up at the lowering sky, down at the crimson bow already flecked with black, forward along the muddy street, then one long, lingering look behind, at a certain grimy warehouse, with 'Hoffmann, Swartz, & Co.' over the door, and said to herself, with a sternly reproachful air...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he clattered up, Alleyne could see that the roan horse was gray with dust and flecked with foam, as though it had left many a mile behind it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The aërial battle was over, and Thomas Mugridge, whining and gibbering, his mouth flecked with bloody foam, was brought down to deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)