dappled
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: [ˈdæpəɫd]
Adjective

dappled

  1. Having a mottled#Adjective|mottled or spotted#Adjective|spotted skin#Noun|skin or coat#Noun|coat, dapple#Adjective|dapple.
    • 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462 ↗, lines 1–3, page 30 ↗:
      Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: {{...}
Translations
  • Italian: pezzato
  • Russian: пятни́стый
  • Spanish: moteado
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of dapple



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