dapple n : a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, patch, fleck, maculation] v : colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, cloud]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æpəl

Noun

1. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
2. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.

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• [1800] 2004, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr. Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419158775&id=bXOEL5RL6DsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&sig=9x8UPZTbcIMkCOkMCSHT1YEwX9M

  “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 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0812534042&id=K4n7-n83mkoC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&sig=6jDsciCT-04_Oi5gjrhFItbDCt0

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

• 2004, D Caroline Coile, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0764126733&id=vmTgPakg8nUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&sig=5r0UWTYWxGcZayQlGiP4v3b1ajU

  Some well-intentioned breeders inadverently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.

Adjective

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

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Verb

1. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

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• 2006, Ace Edmonds, Bands, Part 2 http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26085436/

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

Dapple may refer to:

• Dapple, a book by Eleanor Arnason
• DAPPLE Project, a pollution study
• Dapple gray, a type of coat colour seen on horses
• Silver dapple gene, also known as the "Z" gene, that dilutes the black base coat color in horses

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