dapple

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: [ˈdæpəɫ]
• Rhymes: -æpəl

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, [1] 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.

   • 1996, L E Modesitt, The Order War [2]

     A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple.

   • 2004, D Caroline Coile, [3]

     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

A mottled marking, usually in clusters

• Russian: пятнистая (ru) (pjatnistaja) окраска (ru) (okraska) f

dappled animal

• Spanish: tordo, animal de piel moteada

Adjective

dapple (comparative more dapple, superlative most dapple)

1. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.

Translations

having a spotted skin or coat

• Bulgarian: пъстър (bg) (pǎstǎr), петнист (bg) (petnist)
• Russian: пятнистый (pjatnístyj), of horses: в яблоках (v jáblokakh), чубарый (čubáryj)

• Spanish: tordo, moteado, habado
• Swedish: (of horses: ) apelkastad (sv)

Verb

dapple (third-person singular simple present dapples, present participle dappling, simple past and past participle dappled)

1. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
   • 2006, Ace Edmonds, Bands, Part 2 [4]

     Kris awoke with a start. Sweat dappled his forehead, and he brushed it away.

Translations

to mark with spots

• Bulgarian: изпъстрям (bg) (izpǎstrjam), изпъстрям се (bg) (izpǎstrjam se)
• Russian: покрывать (ru) (pokryvatʹ) пятнами (ru) (pjatnami), покрываться (ru) (pokryvatʹsja) пятнами (ru) (pjatnami)

• Spanish: motear, salpicar

Anagrams

• lapped, palped