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Definition of 'dapple'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
  • An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
  • * 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419158775&id=bXOEL5RL6DsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&sig=9x8UPZTbcIMkCOkMCSHT1YEwX9M] 2004
    • “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple , as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.
  • * 1996, L E Modesitt, The Order War [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0812534042&id=K4n7-n83mkoC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&sig=6jDsciCT-04_Oi5gjrhFItbDCt0]
    • A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple .
  • * 2004, D Caroline Coile, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0764126733&id=vmTgPakg8nUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&sig=5r0UWTYWxGcZayQlGiP4v3b1ajU]
    • Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples' together because occasionally a ' dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
    • a dapple horse
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.

    Verb

    (dappl)
  • To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
  • * 2006, Ace Edmonds, Bands, Part 2 [http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26085436/]
    • Kris awoke with a start. Sweat dappled his forehead, and he brushed it away.

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    Similar to 'dapple'

    double, dibble, dipole, defile, devalue, diable, doable, dabble, duple, debile, dyeable, duffle, diploe, diple, dobule, dowable