Possible Clues:

• Having a pattern of dots, on a ceiling perhaps
• Having a pattern of dots
• Dotted
• Painted in dabs or dots
• How the dugouts came up and pleaded in dots
• Marked with dots or specks
• Dotty son hit the bottle
• Having a mottled effect
• Dotted, speckled
• What the painter did at last just to get tight