dappled
AdjectiveSynonyms:
mottled
WordNet 3.0
Adjective (1)
- having spots or patches of colorSynonyms: mottled
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Dap′ple, Dap′pled adjective
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.— Sir Walter Scott
☞ The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray.
His steed was all dapple-gray.— Geoffrey Chaucer
O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.— Sir Walter Scott
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54