picotee

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picotee

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Borrowed from French picoté (“marked with points”), past participle of picoter.

noun picotees · picketee

A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour. Louis Carlyle's voice was wonderfully suggestive in its phases of the varying aspects of the speaker himself, and at that moment it conveyed a portrait of Mr Carlyle in his very best early-morning business manner […]. In its crisp yet benign complacency Carrados could almost have sworn to resplenden

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@misc{picotee_2026,
  title = {picotee},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/picotee},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}