dapple
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æpəl
Noun
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, [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.
- 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, [1] 2004
Translations
A mottled marking, usually in clusters
dappled animal
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Adjective
dapple (comparative more dapple, superlative most dapple)
- Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
- a dapple horse
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
Translations
having a spotted skin or coat
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Verb
dapple (third-person singular simple present dapples, present participle dappling, simple past and past participle dappled)
- 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
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