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stipple🔊

(painting) The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.

💬 Quotations
Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]

To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.

💬 Quotations
There were no footmarks on the ground, for each wind swept like a great brush over the sand surface, stippling the traces of the last travellers till the surface was again a pattern of innumerable tiny virgin waves.
Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness stippled with the gold of infrequent mysterious lights.
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