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blotched

adjective
\ ˈblächt How to pronounce blotched (audio) \

Definition of blotched

: marked or marred with blotches or irregular spots : covered with blotches blotched skin It was a blotched, stained, mouldering room …— Charles Dickens His rumpled grey hair stood up above his forehead like the crest of an angry bird, and the leather-brown of his veined cheeks was blotched with red.— Edith Wharton
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 Click on the state Division of Oil, Gas & Geo-thermal Resources well-finder map, which shows both active and inactive sites, and L.A. becomes blotched with black. — Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, "Above the Surface and Below, L.A. Is Still an Oil Town," 5 Feb. 2018 The study sheds light on the late emergence of the blotched or striped coat markings, which began to appear in domesticated tabby cats in the Middle Ages. — National Geographic, "Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows," 19 June 2017

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1604, in the meaning defined above

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