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3 definitions found 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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