The bird was a dark blotch against the sky.
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Blotch
/blɒtʃ/
Synonyms for "blotch" (198 found)
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There's a blotch of ink in the table cloth.
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The bird was a dark blotch against the perfect blue sky for several seconds, and then, suddenly folding his pinions and closing his tail, he darted downward like a bomb dropped from an aeroplane.
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1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68, […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]
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