What is "markings"

Usage examples of "markings".

Her hair, braided with bone and shell beads, gleamed under the torchlight, and her skin was mottled with strange markings, perhaps a scabrous disease.

She lowered her head to peer for markings in the dirt that would reveal his path, but could make out nothing.

Some were but abstract markings and others quite clearly were those of vegetation, with flying things winging from one curved branch to the next.

There were new markings in a goodly number on the eastern continent pictured there, but very few on the western.

Matching him was Odanki, and they were both intent on the piece of skin scrawled with markings which the captain anchored in place with one thumb.