mottlement

English

Etymology

mottle +‎ -ment

Noun

mottlement (countable and uncountable, plural mottlements)

1. A mottled pattern.
   • 1961, Rachel Peden, Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living, page 238:

     Through the transparent shell dark mottlements were visible, as if it had eaten lumps of earth.