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- noun Plural form of
splotch .
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Examples
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As I recall, when the comet shoemaker-levy 9 impacted Jupiter, the splotches were the size of Earth. on 01/20/2010, -1/+5That background tune is bad-ass!
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As I recall, when the comet shoemaker-levy 9 impacted Jupiter, the splotches were the size of Earth. on 01/20/2010, -1/+5That background tune is bad-ass!
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With a quaint old low-tech pencil, Switters had copied it onto the flyleaf of Finnegans Wake (talk about your stained paper: wine, beer, cigar ash, soy sauce, fish sauce, gravy, blood, unspeakable and indefinable vegetable-animal-and-mineral deposits, the kind of splotches that might enliven the bedsheets of a Third World beach motel).
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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With a quaint old low-tech pencil, Switters had copied it onto the flyleaf of Finnegans Wake (talk about your stained paper: wine, beer, cigar ash, soy sauce, fish sauce, gravy, blood, unspeakable and indefinable vegetable-animal-and-mineral deposits, the kind of splotches that might enliven the bedsheets of a Third World beach motel).
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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The colouring matter is not always even, but is often spread over the substance of the stone in scabs or "splotches," which rather favours imitation, and, where this unevenness occurs, it may be necessary to cut or divide the stone, or so to arrange the form of it that the finished stone shall be equally blue throughout.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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The words belong to the writer, the splotches belong to the painter, neither the words nor the splotches are the people they are meant to describe or represent, and there’s no reason for anyone to complain or to care.
That voyeur thing 2008
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The words belong to the writer, the splotches belong to the painter, neither the words nor the splotches are the people they are meant to describe or represent, and there’s no reason for anyone to complain or to care.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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We discuss the beautiful image of our universe and the 'splotches' it has produced
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Also, on the night of the election, when Barack and her came out to the audience, she was wearing an extremely ugly red dress with black "splotches".
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Also, on the night of the election, when Barack and her came out to the audience, she was wearing an extremely ugly red dress with black "splotches".
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