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speckled

/ˈspɛkəld/ adjective C2
  1. Marked with dots or spots, spotted. · The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.
  2. Sporadically and irregularly marked.
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OF speckled eggs the birdie sings
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 3 · C1
“Besides, they called me speckled frog.”
The Jungle Book, p. 47 · B2
It was very long, though—almost as long, Watson, as when you and I waited in that deadly room when we looked into the little problem of the Speckled Band.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 95 · B2
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 34 · B2

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