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simple past and past participle of maculate examples
comparative more maculated, superlative most maculated
Having spots or blotches. quotations examples
[The light] fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.
1891, Ambrose Bierce, “Chickamauga” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, p. 48
She lifts the pen from the maculated blotter.
2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 731