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English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English frekled; equivalent to freckle + -ed.
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Adjective
freckled (comparative more freckled, superlative most freckled)
- Having freckles; covered with freckles.
A smile grew across Jim's freckled face.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 4:Pro. […] Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
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