Definitions
produce a mottled effect
Word origin
Probably from Dutch stippel (“small dot”), originally applied to the dots themselves and later to the technique.
Used in a sentence
“Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]”
“Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily?”
“There were no footmarks on the ground, for each wind swept like a great brush over the sand surface, stippling the traces of the last travellers till the surface was again a pattern of innumerable tiny virgin waves.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Dot for shading”7 letters
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