Vocabulary Word
Word: variegated
Definition: (esp. of a flower or leaf) many-colored
Definition: (esp. of a flower or leaf) many-colored
Sentences Containing 'variegated'
This noble entrance, however, in spite of its striking appearance and the graceful effect of the geraniums planted in the two vases, as they waved their variegated leaves in the wind and charmed the eye with their scarlet bloom, had fallen into utter disuse.
In some parts of Scotland, a few poor people make a trade of gathering, along the sea-shore, those little variegated stones commonly known by the name of Scotch pebbles.
They grew scattered, as if wild, among the variegated shrubs, but, as I say, I did not examine them closely at this time.
I have already spoken of the great palaces dotted about among the variegated greenery, some in ruins and some still occupied.
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