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dapple
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What does dapple mean?
noun
- A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
- An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
adjective
- Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
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verb
- To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
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And the boughs bow down, and the apples they dapple The grass, too many for him to grapple.
The flesh-coloured and spotted noses are allowable only in the liver and tan and dapple varieties.
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Avoid spotted, or dapple mules; they are the very poorest animal you can get.
My papa he keeps three horses, Black, and white, and dapple grey, sir; Turn three times, then take your courses, Catch whichever girl you may, sir!
Henry: My lord, Father Luke craves audience straight, He has come on foot from the chapel; Some stranger perished beside his gate When the dawn began to dapple.