FRECKLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freckled mean? 

• FRECKLED (adjective)
  The adjective FRECKLED has 1 sense:

1. relating to or covered with or resembling freckles

  Familiarity information: FRECKLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRECKLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or covered with or resembling freckles

Synonyms:

freckled; lentiginose; lentiginous

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

It was easy to see that he was a quick, irascible, high-blooded man, for he was talking hotly about his grievances with a flush of anger upon his freckled cheeks.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then perhaps canst tell me the name of a great loathly lump of a brother wi' freckled face an' a hand like a spade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her—who could about such a nasty little freckled thing?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, freckled like a plover’s egg, and with the brisk manner of a woman who has had her own way to make in the world.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)