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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;
variegated; as a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir
W. Scott.
Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some
color is variegated or marked with spots; as
dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
His steed was all dapple-gray. --Chaucer.
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir
W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dappled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Dappling}.]
To variegate with spots; to spot.
The gentle day . . . Dapples the drowsy east with
spots of gray. --Shak.
The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dappled
adj : having spots or patches of color [syn: {mottled}]
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