Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

Usage examples of mottling.

The whole building, from the pavement to the coping, notched to receive the roof-joists, is of alabaster, plain-white and streaked with ruddy, mauve, and dark bands, whose mottling gives the effect of marble.

Now that it was light, he noticed the brilliant swirl of tattoos mottling her skin, red chevrons, white lines, and small black circles.

The leaves had turned red, or yellow, or orange, a mottling of color across the surrounding forest.

Pale-skin had retreated, and in its place one with a gold sheen and a dozen crystalline growths mottling its skin shuffled forward to confront him.

Torchlight illuminated ancient scars mottling the walls where stone had been chipped away as miners sought new veins.

But these streams, as he could tell by occasional flecks and mottlings, were moving upwards.

The lithe body was tawny, with gray and brown mottlings which almost perfectly mimicked the pattern of the corral against which it'd reclined with the child.

In direct sun its skin would be white with brown mottlings, but here the background was the leprous color of fungus on a tomb.

Even in the flickering light I could see the beautiful mottlings on her body, on the sides of her breasts and body, red and white, still rich and subtle in her hot, blood-charged skin.

Each reed was subtly different from its neighbors in color and configuration, a red like dried blood, a green so dark it was almost black, fire orange, a deep sapphire blue, shades and blends of all those colors, mottlings and stripes, a few with feathery sprays of seed-pods bursting from their tops.

It was a piece of polished stone longer than it was broad, brown with purple mottlings, tapering to a point.

Dust and cottony fibers were matted in her long hair, her blouse was smeared with mustard and the indefinite leavings of fast food wrappers, and mottlings (was that charcoal?

The marble pavement was now of that livid color seen in the flesh of bodies after death, its veinings were dark as if blood had coagulated within them, and were interspersed with mottlings such as would be made on human skin by the contusions of iron maces.