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stippled

stippled is the simple past and past participle of stipple.

Meaning of stipple

Verb

stipple (third-person singular simple present stipples, present participle stippling, simple past and past participle stippled)

  1. (transitive) To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.
    • Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily?1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XLVII. From Lien Chi Altangi, to ***** merchant in Amsterdam.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or...

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What is stippled the simple past and past participle of?
Stippled is the simple past and past participle of stipple.

Words near stippled in the dictionary

  1. Stipp
  2. stipped
  3. stipping
  4. stipple
  5. stipple ceiling
  6. stippled
  7. stippler
  8. stipplers
  9. stipples
  10. stipplethroat
  11. stippling

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