MOTTLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mottling mean? 

• MOTTLING (noun)
  The noun MOTTLING has 1 sense:

1. the act of coloring with areas of different shades

  Familiarity information: MOTTLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTTLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of coloring with areas of different shades

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("mottling" is a kind of...):

marking (the act of making a visible mark on a surface)

Derivation:

mottle (colour with streaks or blotches of different shades)

mottle (mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained)

 Context examples 

Every vein and crack and mottling of that face of rock remained forever stamped upon his memory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Repeated falls had turned the men brown, with a horrible mottling of crimson blotches.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)