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Fleck   /flɛk/   Listen
Fleck

noun
1.
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.  Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, scrap.
2.
A small contrasting part of something.  Synonyms: dapple, maculation, patch, speckle, spot.  "A leopard's spots" , "A patch of clouds" , "Patches of thin ice" , "A fleck of red"






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"Fleck" Quotes from Famous Books



... plain with no tree in sight. A mile away to the west stood a low stone house and immediately in front of us opened a half-section of unfenced sod. To the north, as far as I could see, the land billowed like a russet ocean, with scarcely a roof to fleck its lonely spread.—I cannot say that I liked or disliked it. I merely marvelled at it, and while I wandered about the yard, the hired man scorched some cornmeal mush in a skillet and this with some butter and gingerbread, made up my first ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... fleck the green, And plum-blooms scent the evening breeze, And robin's songs throb through the trees; And when the year is raw thirteen, And Spring's a gawky hoyden yet, The season mirrors in its mien And in its tom-boy etiquette, ...
— The Court of Boyville • William Allen White

... squirts of man-made clouds, observation balloons—the "sausages" of the enemy—floated motionless above the horizon, sometimes catching a fleck of sunlight and glistening like dull silver. There were no German fliers in the air that day, but high above, as gray vultures hungrily soaring over one spot, two American, two British and four French airmen glided back and forth, in and out, circling, ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris

... nick dike flake fleck flick cake sock deck meek flock pack yoke slick shock poke track hack dock snake neck stuck clack sleek strike crack freak pluck truck stroke brake drake shake black struck sneak spoke tweak ...
— The Beacon Second Reader • James H. Fassett



Words linked to "Fleck" :   blot, sliver, sundog, stain, splash, spot, marking, tarnish, worn spot, macula, scale, maculation, splotch, macule, splinter, facula, parhelion, sully, spatter, scrap, nebula, sunspot, mock sun, bespatter, plaque, change surface, bit, fret, patch, bespeckle, maculate, pinpoint, defile, speck, scurf, fragment, exfoliation, flake, matchwood



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