Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spot; a fleck.
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- verb Present participle of
freckle . - noun A pattern of
freckles
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Examples
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Doran shed his cardigan and sat at his dusty patio table in shirtsleeves, his fair arms freckling in the first real sun of the new year.
Two Poets Carol Reid 2011
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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a hereditary cancer syndrome identified by the presence of gastrointestinal polyps and altered pigmentation (freckling) of certain skin and mucosal areas.
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Patients withBannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome (BRRS) generally have macrocephaly, polyps of the intestines, lipomas and in boys, freckling of the penis.
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That means approximately 18 percentof patients do not have freckling but remain at risk to develop other features of PJS.
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Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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In fact, feel free to put the word “usually” in front of the description and issues, as in “Type 1 usually has pale skin, light eyes, and blond or red hair, is usually Caucasian, and usually has redness and freckling.”
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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In fact, feel free to put the word “usually” in front of the description and issues, as in “Type 1 usually has pale skin, light eyes, and blond or red hair, is usually Caucasian, and usually has redness and freckling.”
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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In fact, feel free to put the word “usually” in front of the description and issues, as in “Type 1 usually has pale skin, light eyes, and blond or red hair, is usually Caucasian, and usually has redness and freckling.”
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
scarequotes commented on the word freckling
http://www.businessinsider.com/freckling-is-the-latest-dating-trend-and-youre-not-going-to-like-it-2018-7
This summer, there's a new addition to the ever-growing lexicon of dating lingo: "freckling."
Basically, freckling is another term for what most would describe as a summer fling: love that lasts only a summer. Like freckles, these sorts of lovers appear for the summer, only to disappear again as the days get colder.
July 4, 2018