liver spots
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of liver spots
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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“It was then a sump of aged men with liver spots, claws, and bourbon breath, who strode the chamber with reptilian gait and hailed one another with mellifluent courtesies.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022
Also known as liver spots, these rounded, bloblike, flat pigmented areas collect on the face and hands and add years to a person’s appearance.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021
He is bald as a badger, and his hands are fantastically embossed with liver spots, gnarls and wrinkles.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 7, 2020
Avedon was famous for zooming in on his subjects’ warts and wens and liver spots, and he comes in for a little of the same.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2017
They are knobby and crooked, thin-skinned, and—like my ruined face—covered with liver spots.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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