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Vermiculated

adjective
1.
Decorated with wormlike tracery or markings.  Synonyms: vermicular, vermiculate.


Vermiculate

verb
(past & past part. vermiculated; pres. part. vermiculating)
1.
Decorate with wavy or winding lines.





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"Vermiculated" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself, of tufa,—a white stone peculiar to the shores of the Loire, and so soft that it lasts hardly more than two centuries. Numberless irregular holes, capriciously bored or eaten out by the inclemency of the weather, gave an appearance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which bore some resemblance to the gateway of a jail. Above the arch was a long bas-relief, in hard stone, representing the four seasons, the faces already ...
— Eugenie Grandet • Honore de Balzac
... Paris of ours, in its population and its varied aspects, seems like a map of the whole world. We find in the Marais narrow streets with old, carved, vermiculated doors, with overhanging gables, with balconies en moucharabies, which make one think of old Heidelberg. Faubourg Saint-Honore where it is broadest, near the Russian church with its white minarets and golden balls, recalls a bit of Moscow. On Montmartre there is a picturesque, crowded spot that ...
— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet


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