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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
mot·tle       [mot-l] Pronunciation Key verb, -tled, -tling, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to mark or diversify with spots or blotches of a different color or shade.
–noun
2.a diversifying spot or blotch of color.
3.mottled coloring or pattern.
[Origin: 1670–80; prob. back formation from motley]

—Related forms
mot·tle·ment, noun
mottler, noun
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mot·tle       (mŏt'l)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   mot·tled, mot·tling, mot·tles
To mark with spots or blotches of different shades or colors.

n.  
  1. A spot or blotch of color.
  2. A variegated pattern, as on marble.


[Probably back-formation from motley.]

mot'tler n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
mottle 
1676, probably a back-formation from motley.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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mottle

noun
1. an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" 

verb
1. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained 
2. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Mottle

Mot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mottled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mottling.] [From Mottled.] To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Mottle

Mot"tle\, n. A mottled appearance.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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