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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freckled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ Danny's freckled face and upturned nose was crowned by a shock of bright red hair.
▪ There was something a bit comical about the hopeful freckled face, but something sad too.
▪ A man in his mid-thirties with dull auburn hair and a freckled face behind rectangular metal-rimmed glasses.
▪ He had a freckled face, pale and pointed, rather earnest, still schoolboyish.
▪ She looked very small and slight standing there with her skinny plait and her pale, freckled face.
▪ I recognised his shock of red hair and freckled face straightaway.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lightly freckled face
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A man in his mid-thirties with dull auburn hair and a freckled face behind rectangular metal-rimmed glasses.
▪ A scalpel gleamed in the doctor's long freckled hand.
▪ A woman was coming towards him, grey-haired, plump and freckled.
▪ Danny's freckled face and upturned nose was crowned by a shock of bright red hair.
▪ Their hands - podgy, thin, freckled or pale - touched everything, prodding, caressing, tickling, squeezing.
▪ There was something a bit comical about the hopeful freckled face, but something sad too.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freckled

Freckle \Frec"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freckled (fr[e^]k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Freckling (fr[e^]k"kl[i^]ng).] To sprinkle or mark with freckles or small discolored spots; to spot.

Freckled

Freckled \Frec"kled\ (fr[e^]k"k'ld), a. Marked with freckles; spotted. ``The freckled trout.''
--Dryden.

The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover.
--Shak.

Wiktionary
freckled

a. 1 Having freckle. 2 Covered with freckles

WordNet
freckled

adj. relating to or covered with or resembling freckles [syn: lentiginous, lentiginose]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "freckled".

He was a mite of a boy, nothing but skin-covered bones, his burned, freckled face in a mortar of tears and dust, his clothing unspeakably dirty, one great toe in a festering mass from a broken nail, and sores all over the visible portions of the small body.

His sneering glance included Taverik, whose yellow hair and wide cheekbones proclaimed him Pakajan, and the Copper Guild man, with his light red hair and freckled face.

Balanji waited as Vitujak, his freckled face tight and inscrutable, followed Rinatto and the guards from the room.

He put his hard, freckled hand into the jaws of stallions, and cowed the wickedest mule with his spotted eye.

There, he joined up with Thum, who rode with eyes shining like stars and a big, silly grin on his freckled face.

His soft, clear voice wavered and choked, and his freckled face looked pale and weary beneath the bandage swathing his head, but he grimly went through the whole prayer.

Honey bent over the man, her freckled face intent as she examined him.

He kissed her eyes, then, slowly, the rest of her face, tasting the faint trace of almond on her freckled cheeks, as he had once fantasized.

The triumvirate of childhood plaguesa freckled carrot-top with a dimple.

It was not as if he had been searching for green eyes and freckled noses wherever he went after all.

As Father Ralph parked his car and walked across the lawn, the maid waited on the front veranda, her freckled face wreathed in smiles.

The small pointed face was all eyes staring at some dreadful prospect, the milky opaque skin which never tanned or freckled was grow ing more translucent.

The sun, the wind and the dryness had weathered their fair, freckled skins to a sort of mottled mahogany, in which their blue eyes shone pale and tranquil, with the deep creases beside them speaking of gazing into far distances and silver-beige grass.

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

MAN with the gun was the freckled, loose-lipped taxi driver who had helped Leaking kidnap Doc Savage.