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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Spottiness; the quality or state of being flecked or speckled.

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Examples

  • A little ripple on the water, – a little fleckiness in the cloud, – a quiet air; it was one of summer's choice days, when she escapes from the sun's fierce watch and sits down to rest herself.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • And though tempered not in Tagus or Guadalquiver, it yet revealed upon its surface that wavy grain and watery fleckiness peculiar to tried blades of Spain.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

  • A little ripple on the water, -- a little fleckiness in the cloud, -- a quiet air; it was one of summer's choice days, when she escapes from the sun's fierce watch and sits down to rest herself.

    Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

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