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  • More importantly, I'm seeing befreckled girls on the street flaunting their fabulously speckled skin, curly- and kinky-haired lasses letting it poof, spiral and bounce, and not-skinny women wearing look-at-my-fabulousness skirts and blouses in bright hues, prints and styles.

    Starre Vartan: The End of Artifice and the Rise of Truly Natural Beauty Starre Vartan 2011

  • More importantly, I'm seeing befreckled girls on the street flaunting their fabulously speckled skin, curly- and kinky-haired lasses letting it poof, spiral and bounce, and not-skinny women wearing look-at-my-fabulousness skirts and blouses in bright hues, prints and styles.

    Starre Vartan: The End of Artifice and the Rise of Truly Natural Beauty Starre Vartan 2011

  • My friend, my boon companion, my competition, my cheerful, befreckled coconspirator, fellow sharer of secret language.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • More importantly, I'm seeing befreckled girls on the street flaunting their fabulously speckled skin, curly- and kinky-haired lasses letting it poof, spiral and bounce, and not-skinny women wearing look-at-my-fabulousness skirts and blouses in bright hues, prints and styles.

    Starre Vartan: The End of Artifice and the Rise of Truly Natural Beauty Starre Vartan 2011

  • My friend, my boon companion, my competition, my cheerful, befreckled coconspirator, fellow sharer of secret language.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • The lovers are Stuart Sawyer (Justin Kirk of Angels in America, who has the sharp angular features of a young Keith Carradine), and Nicole Reilly (the befreckled Julianne Nicholson, of various Laws and Orders).

    GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 9. 2007

  • OFFER: Lindsay Lohan might have a lucrative new career ahead of her… playing the reanimated albeit befreckled corpse of Marilyn Monroe.

    …OF THE DAY | Best Week Ever 2008

  • He stayed there for a few seconds, with a pained and surprised look on his befreckled face, then he jumped up and fired a rock from the gutter that swatted the coach squarely making a big dent in the black expanse of back.

    Frontier Boys in Frisco Wyn Roosevelt

  • An exceedingly alert-looking young lady, very much befreckled, and as yet unemancipated from the long plaits of the schoolroom, came in like a whirlwind.

    The Zeppelin's Passenger 1906

  • His appearance, from all accounts, was that of the victim of some malignant sorceress; he seemed to have drunk of Circe's cup; beast-like; rags insufficient to hide his nakedness; his befreckled skin blistered by continual exposure to the sun; nose flat; countenance contorted, heavy, earthy; hair and beard unshorn, profuse, and of fiery red.

    The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

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