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Having spots or blotches.

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  • The dog's coat was mottled with brown, black and yellow spots.
  • Her bright russet hair sliding out of a barrette, her skin mottled, her face carefully neutral.
  • Under his feet was the velvet grass, the trees arched overhead, and he stood in mottled sunshine.
  • "Toasted skin syndrome" is what Swiss researchers have dubbed a mottled-skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure.
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