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Definition of Flyspecked
1. flyspeck [v] - See also: flyspeck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyspecked
Literary usage of Flyspecked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The San Diego Garden Fair: Personal Impressions of the Architecture by Eugen Neuhaus, Karl Eugen Neuhaus (1916)
"There are hung about old musty paintings, in flyspecked frames, of religious
subjects, an antique "Ecce Homo" unearthed in Old Mexico being one of the most ..."
2. The Southland of North America: Rambles and Observations in Central America by George Palmer Putnam (1913)
"In the corner groceries of the homeland we had seen the bunches, flyspecked,
yellow, green, and dingy brown. That marked the ultimate period of their ..."
3. A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser, Franklin Booth (1916)
"The best pictures were flyspecked lithographs or chro- mos. The floors when they
were laid with anything were covered with earthy looking rag carpets—creaky ..."
4. Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1915)
"I knew, too, from what I remembered, that the plateau immediately beneath us was
flyspecked with the roofs of small abandoned villages; and that the road ..."
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