stipple

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Etymology

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Probably from Dutch stippel (small dot), originally applied to the dots themselves and later to the technique.

Noun

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stipple (countable and uncountable, plural stipples)

  1. (painting) The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.

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stipple (third-person singular simple present stipples, present participle stippling, simple past and past participle stippled)

  1. (transitive) To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.
    • c. 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the east[1], Letter 48:
      Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow stippled very prettily?
    • 1851, John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism[2], New York: John Wiley, page 50:
      The worst drawings that have ever come from [ Turner’s] hands are some of this second period, on which he has spent much time and laborious thought; drawings filled with incident from one side to the other, with skies stippled into morbid blue, and warm lights set against them in violent contrast []
    • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 41, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom[3]:
      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.
    • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in Babbitt[4]:
      Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness stippled with the gold of infrequent mysterious lights.
    • 1966 October 14, “Charisma, Calluses and Cash”, in Time:
      The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own.
    • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
      Although he was clean-shaven, black Benday dots traced the narrow pathway of his thin mustache and the stippled edge of his jaw.

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