stipple
Noun
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Noun
stipple
- The use of small dot#Noun|dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.
- 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462 ↗, lines 1–3, page 30 ↗:
- Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: {{...}
- German: Tüpfelung, Punktierung, Kornrasterung, Sprenkelung
stipple (stipples, present participle stippling; past and past participle stippled)
- (transitive) To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.
- c. 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the east, Letter 48,
- Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow stippled very prettily?
- 1851, John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, New York: John Wiley, p. 50,
- The worst drawings that have ever come from [ Turner’s] hands are some of this second period, on which he has spent much time and laborious thought; drawings filled with incident from one side to the other, with skies stippled into morbid blue, and warm lights set against them in violent contrast […]
- 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter 41,
- There were no footmarks on the ground, for each wind swept like a great brush over the sand surface, stippling the traces of the last travellers till the surface was again a pattern of innumerable tiny virgin waves.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 10,
- Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness stippled with the gold of infrequent mysterious lights.
- 1966, “Charisma, Calluses and Cash,” Time, 14 October, 1966,[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840681,00.html]
- The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own.
- 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Five,
- Although he was clean-shaven, black Benday dots traced the narrow pathway of his thin mustache and the stippled edge of his jaw.
- c. 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the east, Letter 48,
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