mottle

Blue mottle, or Belton greys, which stand work and are better than; 2.

The effect of this winding, is to give a beautiful mottle to the barrel; which will be found depicted in plate No. 3.

He had a coat of velvet that through age had become marked with an opalescent mottle.

In some old strains the "blue mottle" of the Southern Hound is still preserved.

Ginsburg put up his gloved hand and wiped clean a face that with passion had turned a mottle of red-and-white blotches.