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  • noun Plural form of blotching.

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Examples

  • And everywhere, the skin of the Beast did be set into great wrinklings, and horrid blotchings to be upon the improper whiteness thereof; and truly I did be in haste that I turn the Maid away from that thing, and that we haste downward of the

    The Night Land 2007

  • And as the Monster came forward the more into the light, I saw that the great and utter mighty bulk did be all of that same whiteness, that did be so set over with blotchings and a seeming of unhealth.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And everywhere, the skin of the Beast did be set into great wrinklings, and horrid blotchings to be upon the improper whiteness thereof; and truly I did be in haste that I turn the Maid away from that thing, and that we haste downward of the Gorge.

    The Night Land: Chapter 12 1912

  • And as the Monster came forward the more into the light, I saw that the great and utter mighty bulk did be all of that same whiteness, that did be so set over with blotchings and a seeming of unhealth.

    The Night Land: Chapter 12 1912

  • It contained three, of a pale sea-green, with ash-brown streakings and blotchings all over.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The markings consist of bold blotchings or sometimes ill-defined clouds (in this respect recalling the eggs of _Prinia inornata_,) chiefly confined to the large end; and specks, spots, and splashes, extending more or less over the whole surface, typically of

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

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