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FRECKLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does freckled mean?
• FRECKLED (adjective)
The adjective FRECKLED has 1 sense:
1. relating to or covered with or resembling freckles
Familiarity information: FRECKLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or covered with or resembling freckles
Synonyms:
freckled; lentiginose; lentiginous
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
Context examples
It was easy to see that he was a quick, irascible, high-blooded man, for he was talking hotly about his grievances with a flush of anger upon his freckled cheeks.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then perhaps canst tell me the name of a great loathly lump of a brother wi' freckled face an' a hand like a spade.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her—who could about such a nasty little freckled thing?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, freckled like a plover’s egg, and with the brisk manner of a woman who has had her own way to make in the world.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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