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Webster 1913 Edition

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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.

pp.

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