Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pock-marked; marked with smallpox; pitted with smallpox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
pockmarked .
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Examples
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So universal was the branding produced by this scourge that scarcely an advertisement containing any personal description appears in any colonial print, without containing the words, pock-fretten, pock-marked, pock-pitted, or pock-broken.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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'He is a thin, tallish man, a little pock-fretten, of a sallowish complexion.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725
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‘He is a thin, tallish man, a little pock-fretten, of a sallowish complexion.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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