freckles
small, light-brown spots on the skin
TRANSLATION
freckles = die Sommersprossen --- GOOGLE INDEX freckles: approximately 3,700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Ms Hepburn had FRECKLES from head to toe, and in fact she did a number of self-portraits that showed them. The first time we looked at them we thought they were chickenpox."
Spokesperson for Sotheby's auction house discussing self-portraits of actress Katherine Hepburn
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University of Minnesota scientists say male lions are born with pink noses, which become increasingly FRECKLED and black the older the animals get.
BBC News
Spokesperson for Sotheby's auction house discussing self-portraits of actress Katherine Hepburn
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University of Minnesota scientists say male lions are born with pink noses, which become increasingly FRECKLED and black the older the animals get.
BBC News
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freckles
noun
- small pale brown spots on the skin, usually on the face, especially of a light-skinned person
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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African-American comedian Bill Cosby once said about his skin colour, "I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger." But not everyone likes to joke about skin colour - or freckles, those small light-brown spots that many fair-skinned people have.
Some people with freckles are self-conscious about them. Others may find freckles attractive, in a cute kind of way. And some people really don't care about their freckles or other physical traits at all.
Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, in response to a comment about his rather "unstylish" appearance that resembles the stereotype of the computer geek, said: "If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION
Say something like:
"Of all the candidates we interviewed, I like the one with the red hair and freckles the most."
noun
- small pale brown spots on the skin, usually on the face, especially of a light-skinned person
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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African-American comedian Bill Cosby once said about his skin colour, "I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger." But not everyone likes to joke about skin colour - or freckles, those small light-brown spots that many fair-skinned people have.
Some people with freckles are self-conscious about them. Others may find freckles attractive, in a cute kind of way. And some people really don't care about their freckles or other physical traits at all.
Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, in response to a comment about his rather "unstylish" appearance that resembles the stereotype of the computer geek, said: "If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION
Say something like:
"Of all the candidates we interviewed, I like the one with the red hair and freckles the most."
