frecklings

Made gloom of all her frecklings, streaks and bars,

Lamia 1884

The ground-colour varies from greyish white to a delicate pale pink; as a rule the markings are small and inconspicuous frecklings and specklings of pale purple reddish where the ground, is pink, greyish where it is white, tolerably thickly set about the large end and somewhat sparsely elsewhere; but in some eggs these markings are everywhere almost obsolete.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The frecklings are always somewhat densest at the large end, where in some eggs they form a dull brown cap or zone.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The ground-colour is a greenish or greyish stone-colour, and they are finely and often rather sparsely freckled all over with very faint reddish brown, or brownish pink in most eggs; these frecklings are gathered together into a more or less dense zone round the large end, forming a conspicuous ring there much darker-coloured than the frecklings over the rest of the surface.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Made gloom of all her frecklings, streaks and bars,

Keats: Poems Published in 1820 John Keats 1808

a yellowish olive-brown; they consist of spots, specks, small streaky blotches and frecklings; they are always pretty densely set over the whole surface of the egg, but they are always most dense in a zone or sometimes a cap at the large end, where they are often, to a great extent, confluent.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870