Motley

(noun.) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England.

(noun.) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume).

(verb.) make motley; color with different colors.

(adj.) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; 'a jester dressed in motley'; 'the painted desert'; 'a particolored dress'; 'a piebald horse'; 'pied daisies' .

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• The motley of people under his rule knew little of him and cared less. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The doctor will come up to us too for the last time there, my friend in motley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Quite a train was collected during the 30th, and a motley train it was. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• As early as 1849 Clarke and Motley, in England, invented a machine drill, and in 1851 Fowle devised a similar machine, having the drill attached directly to the piston cross head. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The other occupants of the room, five in number, were all females, and they were still sleeping, piled high with a motley array of silks and furs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• It is true, I gave a little ground at first, for a motley jacket does not brook lance-heads, as a steel doublet will. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She was wearing a curious dress of dark silk splashed and spattered with different colours, a curious motley effect. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Facing the little knot of officers was the entire motley crew of the Fuwalda, and at their head stood Black Michael. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The room was soon filled with a motley assemblage, from the old gray-headed patriarch of eighty, to the young girl and lad of fifteen. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• O brother wearers of motley! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mixing carelessly in the motley throng, I did not discover this charming spot till I had been there some time. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• We do not all wear motley. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Yes, I said; his life is motley and manifold and an epitome of the lives of many;--he answers to the State which we described as fair and spangled. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It was to the leaders of this motley army that the letter of the Templar was now delivered. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There was a strange and appalling motley in the situation of these the last of the race. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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