Stipple

Quick meaning: Stipple is a noun meaning (painting) The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.

Meaning

(painting) The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.

Example Sentences

Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily?

Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness stippled with the gold of infrequent mysterious lights.

Although he was clean-shaven, black Benday dots traced the narrow pathway of his thin mustache and the stippled edge of his jaw.

The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own.

Word Forms

• stipples
• stippling
• stippled

Synonyms for stipple

Depending on context, synonyms include speckle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include speckle, engraving, dot, quilting, stigmatypy, ink dot.

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