Definition of "splotches" []

• Plural form of splotch. (noun)

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• "As I recall, when the comet shoemaker-levy 9 impacted Jupiter, the splotches were the size of Earth. on 01/20/2010, -1/+5That background tune is bad-ass!"
• "With a quaint old low-tech pencil, Switters had copied it onto the flyleaf of Finnegans Wake (talk about your stained paper: wine, beer, cigar ash, soy sauce, fish sauce, gravy, blood, unspeakable and indefinable vegetable-animal-and-mineral deposits, the kind of splotches that might enliven the bedsheets of a Third World beach motel)."
• "The colouring matter is not always even, but is often spread over the substance of the stone in scabs or "splotches," which rather favours imitation, and, where this unevenness occurs, it may be necessary to cut or divide the stone, or so to arrange the form of it that the finished stone shall be equally blue throughout."