Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Flecked; spotted or streaked; variegated. Also spelled befleckt.

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Examples

  • Figure after figure emerged, one more besmirched than another, till finally the most beflecked of all was shaken out and displayed -- Lady

    The Marriage of William Ashe Humphry Ward 1885

  • Notwithstanding all this, there was a certain air about Mrs. Gunilla which carried off all; and with her character, rank, property, and consideration, she was _haute volée_, spite of torn gown and snuff-beflecked ribbons, and had great influence among the best society of the city.

    The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833

  • The mighty, snow-clad Peak surmounted by its column of glowing smoke and casting its shadow for mile upon mile across the desert flats; the plain with its isolated rocks and grey bushes; the doomed horses struggling across it with convulsive bounds; the trailing line of great dogs that loped after them, and amongst these, looking small and lonely in that vast place, the figure of the Khan and his horse, of which the black hide was beflecked with foam.

    Ayesha, the Return of She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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