• mackle(obsolete)

FromMiddle Frenchmacule, fromLatinmacula.Doublet ofmacchia,macula and, with a suffix,maquis.

• Rhymes:-ækjuːl

macule (pluralmacules)

1. Aspot.
2. Ablur or anappearance of adoubleimpression, as when thepaperslips a little duringprinting.

macule (third-person singular simple presentmacules,present participlemaculing,simple past and past participlemaculed)

1. (printing) Toblur or be blurred; especially to blur ordouble animpression fromtype.

• “macule”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• Caelum,almuce

• IPA^(key): /ma.kyl/

Borrowed fromLatinmacula.Doublet ofmaille, which was inherited.

macule f (pluralmacules)

1. (rare and literary or sciences, astronomy, medicine, zoology)stain

• immaculé
• maculer

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

macule

1. inflection ofmaculer:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “macule”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

macule f

1. plural ofmacula

macule

1. Alternative form ofmacula

macule

1. inflection ofmacular:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

macule

1. inflection ofmacular:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

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