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Definition of Pockmarked

1. Adjective. Used of paved surfaces having holes or pits.

2. Adjective. Marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease.

Definition of Pockmarked

1. a. Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Definition of Pockmarked

1. Verb. (past of pockmark) ¹

2. Adjective. Having pockmarks. ¹

3. Adjective. Pitted, or scarred with holes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pockmarked

1. pockmark [v] - See also: pockmark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pockmarked

pocketknives pocketless pocketlike pocketphone pocketphones pockets pocketsful pockier pockiest pockily

pockiness pocking pockmark pockmarked (current term) pockmarking pockmarks pockpit pockpits pocks pockwood

pocky poco poco a poco pococurante pococurantes pococurantism pococurantisms pocones

Literary usage of Pockmarked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"pockmarked Faces in the I7th Century. The smallpox of 1667-68 had among its numerous victims one of the king's mistresses, the beautiful Frances Stewart, ..."

2. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico: Comp. and Chronologically Arranged with by Ralph Emerson Twitchell (1914)
"JOSEPHA ANTONIA DE AGUILA, daughter of the above named, native of Mexico, Calle Virtud, ten years of age, pockmarked, and large eyes. ..."

3. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"Like the multitude of studious youths and young men who came thither annually to find schools and teachers, this small, thin, dark-complexioned, pockmarked, ..."

4. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"The outer chevalier-guard, an enormous, pockmarked man, scowled when he saw ... The huge black horse shied and dropped its ears; but the pockmarked ..."

5. The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times by Richard Robert Madden (1842)
"Bloomer, five feet six inches in height, pockmarked, by trade a hairdresser in Pye-corner. Bishop, a hairdresser, lives in Aungier-street, ..."

6. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Arthur Orton (1874)
"He never saw him pockmarked, and never saw him with earrings. He also says that Arthur Orton was wonderfully like his father in the face and very much like ..."

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