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Variegated   /vˈɛrɪgeɪtəd/   Listen
verb
Variegate  v. t.  (past & past part. variegated; pres. part. variegating)  To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. "The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone."



adjective
Variegated  adj.  Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. "Ladies like variegated tulips show."






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"Variegated" Quotes from Famous Books



... tulips faded early, because of continued rains, the solid masses of pansies remained to keep up the golden show. With the end of the yellow period came three months of pink flowers, to be followed in the closing third of the Exposition's life by a show of variegated blooms. ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... made a brilliant foil, on one side, with her garlands and basket of vivid scarlet poppies; while another junior, bedecked with fuchsias, stood on the opposite side and held an umbrella, made of and fringed with the same flowers, protectingly over her; and with a score or more others forming a variegated background, the scene was brilliant ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... common underbrush, whence I had a good general view. The front of the main glacier is not far distant from the fiord, and sends off small bergs into a lake. The walls of its tributary canyons are remarkably jagged and high, cut in a red variegated rock, probably slate. On the way back to the canoe I gathered ripe salmon-berries an inch and a half in diameter, ripe huckleberries, too, in great abundance, and several interesting plants I had not before met in ...
— Travels in Alaska • John Muir

... if it could only produce evil fruits. Or, again, man is like an object which variegates the rays of light in it. If the object gives only unpleasing colors, the light is not the cause, for its rays can be variegated to produce ...
— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg

... in, and the door was shut, and the curtain over it was let down, you seemed to be entirely secluded from all the world. This drapery was green, and the room, being entirely enclosed in it, might have seemed sombre had it not been for the brilliancy and beauty of the furniture, and the variegated colors and high polish of the floor. There was an elegant bedstead and bed in the back part of the room, with a carved canopy over it. There was a bureau also, with drawers, where Jennie kept her clothes; and a little fireplace, with a pretty brass fender before ...
— Rollo in Paris • Jacob Abbott


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