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maculate
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maculate [′mak·yə·lət]
(botany)
Marked with speckles or spots.


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36-38) alluding to the biblical story of Cain, is taken up once again in the context of a later tradition, which she and other scholars use retrospectively (so far as the story in the original Hebrew Bible is concerned): the "curse" on Cain was conflated by long tradition with the curse of blackness on Canaan or Ham, whose punishment for his own "adulterous" sin figured the origin of "black Moors" as well as the maculation of racial mixing.
Currently the problem is usually resolved by washing the blanket, which results in press downtime and causes maculation or spotting.
Nantes-based artist Jackie Dumonteil has designed a blue and white spray-paint maculation of the inner, corrugated surface.
 
 
 
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