unflecked

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ flecked

Adjective[edit]

unflecked (comparative more unflecked, superlative most unflecked)

  1. Not marked with flecks.
    • 1897, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot[1]:
      The ceaseless motion of the vessel rocking at the centre of a circular space of blue, with a perfectly symmetrical dome of azure enclosing her above, unflecked by a single cloud, becomes at last almost unbearable from its changeless sameness of environment.
    • 1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber[2]:
      Shores that Stella had last seen dismal and forlorn in the frost-fog, sheathed in ice, banked with deep snow, lay sparkling now in warm sunshine, under an unflecked arch of blue.