Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;
variegated; as, a dapple horse.
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Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir
W. Scott.
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Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some
color is variegated or marked with spots; as,
dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
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His steed was all dapple-gray. --Chaucer.
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O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir
W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dappling.]
To variegate with spots; to spot.
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The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
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The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dappled
adj : having spots or patches of color [syn: mottled]
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "dappled":
Quaker-colored, acier, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent,
amphibious, ashen, ashy, blended, calico, canescent, cinereous,
cinerous, clouded, combined, complex, composite, compound,
compounded, conglomerate, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled-gray, dingy,
discolor, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty,
eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, glaucescent, glaucous, gray,
gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous,
grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, half-and-half, heterogeneous,
indiscriminate, intricate, iron-gray, ironic, jumbled, lead-gray,
leaden, livid, many-sided, marbled, medley, mingled, miscellaneous,
mixed, motley, mottled, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
multicolor, multicolored, multifaceted, multihued, multinational,
multiracial, parti-colored, patchy, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, pluralistic, promiscuous,
sad, scrambled, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald,
slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, steel-gray,
steely, stone-colored, syncretic, taupe, thrown together,
varicolored, varied, versicolor, versicolored
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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