pointillé
[ French pwan-tee-yey ]
/ French pwɛ̃ tiˈyeɪ /
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adjective
(of book covers) decorated with a tooled pattern of dots.
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Origin of pointillé
1900–05; <French, past participle of pointiller to dot, point
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