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n. - The act of spotting or staining something; A small contrasting part of something.

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Usage examples (11)
  • If anything, Mr. Kucinich spares the Karzai cartel and his family the public maculation they've truly earned.
  • Panorpatae: = Mecoptera; q.v. Pantherine: in color, almost like cervinus; q.v.: in maculation, like those of a panther.
  • Lumper: one who, in describing species or genera recognizes only prominent or obvious characters to the exclusion of minor color or variable characters of maculation or...
  • With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the...
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