The word "maculate" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to describe something that is stained or blemished. Example: "The once pristine white dress was now maculate after the party." Alternatives include "blemished" or "stained."
Skeletal, almost transparent, Ombretta would bare her wolfish teeth in a polite salute and murmur my name, her blue eyes now muddy and vague, hidden behind huge, rather vulgar sunglasses, her once tough skin as papery as onion peel, her hair no longer a strict white helmet but blowing in milkweed wisps over a maculate bare skull.
All conceptions now maculate.
In botanical terms, Ms. Gordon would classify as willowy, with rufous hair and a slightly maculate complexion.
And behind the sunlight of the deserts of Amexica there is some maculate black light which gives nothing back; un-shining behind the eternities of space and sky, or the bustle in all those streets with hot peppers and freshly gathered pistachios tumbling from every open storefront.
Some readers may also have a problem with the whiff of homophobia in the depictions of the Eighties gay scene; others may just retch at the characteristic semantic overload - maculate credenzas are swamped by anfractuous apophthegms amid prognathous rodomontade.
Fortunately, the embarrassment that my maculate appearance might cause was evitable.
At an abandoned naval outpost, "Rust, the penetrant/ turns iron maculate" while "The edging wind eats everything".
Rarer are the mannas not from sap, including Trehala manna, the sweet-tasting cocoon of the Larinus maculates beetle from Turkey; and manna-lichen (Lecanora esculenta), which occasionally dries up and blows around to form semisweet clouds out of which manna settles into drifts from western Greece to the central Asian steppe.
In an ensuing series of incidents, two women were killed on the Vrbanja Bridge, a hundred yards or so from Teta Jozefina's apartment, quite conceivably by the same good sniper who later maculated the walls in the room of my conception.
