maculation

noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

   “I speak not ‘be thou true,’ as fearing thee, For I will throw my glove to Death himself, That there’s no maculation in thy heart:”

   “1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218, He could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay.”

2. (uncountable)A pattern of spots.

   “Females [of the species Speyeria nokomis] are cream above with heavy black maculation accompanied by much dark suffusion.”

   “1990, Mason E. Hale, A Synopsis of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia (Vainio) Hale (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 195, [This lichen] species […] is recognized by […] more or less distinct maculation on the upper surface, and pale brown lower surface.”