dapple
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: [ˈdæpəɫ]
Noun

dapple (plural dapples)

  1. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
  2. 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.
Translations
  • Russian: пятнистый
Translations
  • Spanish: tordo, animal de piel moteada
Adjective

dapple

  1. 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 ↗:
Translations
  • Russian: пятни́стый
  • Spanish: tordo, moteado, habado
Verb

dapple (dapples, present participle dappling; past and past participle dappled)

  1. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
Translations
  • Russian: покрыва́ть
  • Spanish: motear, salpicar



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