mottling
mo tuh ling
- n the act of coloring with areas of different shades
- v mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- v colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- After long investigation, curious dentists found that the mottling was caused by fluorine (a relative of iodine, chlorine, bromine) in the town's new water supply.
- Therefore it seemed certain that fluorine caused the mottling and all that the other 96 afflicted communities need to do is to get new, fluorine-free water.
- All his working life, from the early months of mottling, marbling and staining as a house decorator's apprentice in 1899 to the last grand studio in Varengeville with its sifting .