freckled
adj/ˈfɹɛkəld/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English frekled; equivalent to freckle + -ed.
1
Having freckles; covered with freckles.
- A smile grew across Jim's freckled face.
- Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
1 more example
- 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.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:
- Derived terms
- befreckled, freckled blenny, freckled duck, freckledness, nonfreckled, unfreckled
- Related terms
- freckle, freckleface