英:[bɪs'pɒt]
美:[bɪs'pɒt]
英:[bɪs'pɒt]
美:[bɪs'pɒt]
transitive verb
to mark with or as if with spots
Middle English bespotten, from be- + spotten to spot
1 X Beyond the Rhine's fair current their hasty camp was seen; There tents and proud pavilions bespotted all the green.
2 Some of the men were clad in their best black broadcloth, resplendent, if shiny at the seams, and bespotted with drink and tobacco stains.
3 V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
4 Curtains of silk damask, all bespotted with quaintest flowers, each like a page of Chaucer's poetry, hung round his bed, quite other than fit sails for the Stygian boat.
5 His dress is usually very slovenly and dirty, his shirt-collar bespotted with tobacco-juice, and tied with an old striped bandana handkerchief.
6 If I should walk straight on in them my outer robe might be bespotted, you see how white it is!
7 To complete this grotesque equipment, the proud animal is bestreaked and bespotted with vermilion, or with white clay, whichever presents the most glaring contrast to his real color.