mottlement

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English

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Etymology

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From mottle +‎ -ment.

Noun

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mottlement (countable and uncountable, plural mottlements)

  1. A mottled pattern.
    • 1961, Rachel Peden, Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living, page 238:
      Through the transparent shell dark mottlements were visible, as if it had eaten lumps of earth.