Stipple

/ˈstɪpəl/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (painting) The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.
2. (transitive) To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.

Example Sentences

Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]

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

The worst drawings that have ever come from [Turner’s] hands are some of this second period, on which he has spent much time and laborious thought; drawings filled with incident from one side to the other, with skies stippled into morbid blue, and warm lights set against them in violent contrast […]

There were no footmarks on the ground, for each wind swept like a great brush over the sand surface, stippling the traces of the last travellers till the surface was again a pattern of innumerable tiny virgin waves.

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

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

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

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Word Forms

• stipples
• stippling
• stippled

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