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Webster 1913 Edition


Dappled

{

Dap′ple

,

Dap′pled

}
,
Adj.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated;
as, a
dapple
horse
.
Some
dapple
mists still floated along the peaks.
Sir W. 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.
Chaucer.
O, swiftly can speed my
dapple
-gray steed.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dappled

DAP'PLED

,
pp.
Spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color.

Definition 2024


dappled

dappled

English

Adjective

dappled (comparative more dappled, superlative most dappled)

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

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Verb

dappled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of dapple