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freckled, ppl. a.|ˈfrɛk(ə)ld|
Also 4 y-fracled, 5 y-freklet, fraculd.
[f. freckle n. + -ed2.]
1. Marked with freckles.
1440[see freckny]. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iv. Wks. 1856 I. 50 She hath a freckled face. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1532/4 With pock-holes in his face, and freckled. 1751Gordon Another Cordial for Low Spirits II. 138 One of the Barkin-Tribe, with weather-beaten Countenance and freckl'd Fist. 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Sh. 232 The freckled children looked hard and healthy.
2. Spotted; dappled; variegated.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 3659 Is stede, Al y-fracled wyþ whit & rede. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 233 Eyen..whit y-freklet, or I-sprotid. c1614Drayton Quest of Cynthia Wks. (1748) 227 We'll angle in the brook, The freckled trout to take. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. i. (1677) 41 Their [Hounds'] Legs freckled with red and black. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 140 Freckled cowslips are gilding the plain. 1876Rock Text. Fabr. 63 Velvet..freckled with gold thread sprouting up like loops.
†3. Resembling a freckle. Obs.—1
1611Bible Lev. xiii. 39 It is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin.
4. Comb., as freckled-faced adj.
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 107/2 When a stout frecled faced King should passe over that ford, then the power of the Welshmen should be brought under. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2256/4 They were taken away by a Fellow..swarthy and freckled Faced. 1885Black White Heather ii, The little red-headed, freckled-faced lassie.
Hence ˈfreckledness, the state of being freckled.
1611Cotgr., Canetille..the frecklednesse of a face. |