dapple
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: [ˈdæpəɫ]
dapple (plural dapples)
- 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, 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.
- 2004, D Caroline Coile,
- Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.
- 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, 2004
- Russian: пятнистый
- Spanish: tordo, animal de piel moteada
dapple
- Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
- a dapple horse
- 1815 February 23, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644 ↗:
dapple (dapples, present participle dappling; past and past participle dappled)
- To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
- Russian: покрыва́ть
- Spanish: motear, salpicar
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