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Definition of Freckles
1. freckle [v] - See also: freckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freckles
Literary usage of Freckles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art-literature Readers by Eulalie Osgood Grover, Frances Elizabeth Chutter (1909)
"freckles AND TAN Say, what are these wee little freckles, ... The freckles are
scars from the kisses That angels in loving embrace Have pressed, ..."
2. The Adventures of Jimmy Brown by William Livingston Alden, William Ludwell Sheppard, Arthur Burdett Frost (1885)
"One night Mr. Travers came to tea, and everybody was talking about freckles. Mr.
Travers said that they were real fashionable, and that all the ladies were ..."
3. The Care of the Skin and Hair by William Allen Pusey (1912)
"freckles AND TANNING freckles are due to an irregular distribution of the
pigment-forming cells in the skin and their appearance is caused or exaggerated by ..."
4. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"CHAPTER XT WHEREIN ELNORA GRADUATES, AND freckles AND THE ANGEL SEND GIFTS THAT
was Friday night. Elnora came home Saturday morning and began work. ..."
5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"(2) The second form has the ground-colour dull green, paler at the folds, with
traces of black-brown network of freckles, most distinct as a subdorsal patch ..."
6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"freckles ; small spots of a yellowish color, scattered over the face, ...
freckles are either natural, or proceed accidentally from the jaundice, ..."
7. Diseases of the Skin: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by J. M. H. MacLeod (1921)
"freckles, unilateral and confined and the backs of the hands. Symptoms. ...
freckles have also been described on covered parts, such as the back, buttocks, ..."