MOTTLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mottled mean? 

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

1. having spots or patches of color

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTTLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having spots or patches of color

Synonyms:

dappled; mottled

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

From Dax to St. Jean Pied-du-Port the country was mottled with the white tents of Gascons, Aquitanians and English, all eager for the advance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was on some sort of a heathy common mottled over with dark clumps of furze-bushes.

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

Sir, said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, that thing was not my master, and there’s the truth.

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

The letter which had been the messenger of death for Milverton lay, all mottled with his blood, upon the table.

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

Dark brown dust lanes snake across the galaxy’s bright arms and center, giving it a mottled appearance.

(Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space, NASA)

Round one of his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all over with bloodstains.

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

Walking along the Strand, afterwards, and observing a hard mottled substance in the window of a ham and beef shop, which resembled marble, but was labelled Mock Turtle, I went in and bought a slab of it, which I have since seen reason to believe would have sufficed for fifteen people.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Finally one of them, an elderly man, with a necklace and bracelet of great lustrous glass beads and the skin of some beautiful mottled amber-colored animal slung over his shoulders, ran forward and embraced most tenderly the youth whom we had saved.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The light/dark mottled pattern of Piri Planitia in the left inset is reflected in the composition map, with the lighter areas corresponding to areas richer in methane – these may be remnants of methane that have not yet sublimated away entirely.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

Strings of pedestrians, most of them so weary and dust-covered that it was evident that they had walked the thirty miles from London during the night, were plodding along by the sides of the road or trailing over the long mottled slopes of the moorland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)