Bronzing bracken and mottled bramble gleamed in the light of the sinking sun.
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Mottled
//ˈmɑt əld//
Synonyms for "mottled" (32 found)
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10 entriesderived from
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42 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- βαλιός adj (spotted)
- ποικίλος adj (spotted)
Armenian
2 entries- խայտուցավոր adj (spotted)
- պիսակավոր adj (spotted)
Catalan
2 entries- clapat adj (spotted)
- clapejat adj (spotted)
Czech
1 entries- strakatý adj (spotted)
Dutch
1 entries- gevlekt adj (spotted)
Finnish
2 entries- läiskikäs adj (spotted)
- täplikäs adj (spotted)
French
2 entries- marbré adj (spotted)
- tacheté adj (spotted)
Galician
1 entries- pinto adj (spotted)
German
4 entries- fleckig adj (spotted)
- gefleckt adj (spotted)
- gesprenkelt adj (spotted)
- marmoriert adj (spotted)
Hungarian
3 entries- pettyes adj (spotted)
- pettyezett adj (spotted)
- pöttyözött adj (spotted)
Irish
1 entries- ballach adj (spotted)
Mokilese
1 entries- mwahmwain adj (spotted)
Māori
4 entries- kōrangorango adj (spotted)
- tarare adj (spotted)
- tawatawa adj (spotted)
- tāingoingo adj (spotted)
Old Armenian
1 entries- պիսակ adj (spotted)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- schakjich adj (spotted)
Portuguese
2 entries- malhado adj (spotted)
- manchado adj (spotted)
Russian
3 entries- кра́пчатый adj (spotted)
- пятни́стый adj (spotted)
- пёстрый adj (spotted)
Slovak
2 entries- fľakatý adj (spotted)
- strakatý adj (spotted)
Spanish
3 entries- jaspeado adj (spotted)
- manchado adj (spotted)
- moteado adj (spotted)
Swedish
1 entries- fläckig adj (spotted)
Tagalog
1 entries- batik-batik adj (spotted)
Turkish
1 entries- benekli adj (spotted)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors. A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering.
Source: tatoeba (6606606)
I looked round, with a chill of fear in my heart, at the huge swelling plain, mottled with the green patches of rushes. Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
Source: tatoeba (6608602)
Giles Headley the younger was a fine tall youth, but clumsy and untrained in the use of his limbs, and he rode a large, powerful brown horse, which brooked no companionship, lashing out with its shaggy hoofs at any of its kind that approached it, more especially at poor, plump, mottled Poppet.
Source: tatoeba (11676172)
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