Freckles are small light brown spots on someone's skin, especially on their face. He had short ginger-coloured hair and freckles. freckles are small brown spots on someone's skin, especially on their face, which the sun can cause to increase in number and become darker mole (frecken (14-19 centuries), from freknur)
a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin become freckled; "I freckle easily